The Aga Khan University’s Foundations for Health and Empowerment (F4HE) initiative successfully ended its five-year tenure of nationwide research and implementation projects in newborn health, and parents’ mental and physical health. F4HE is a multi-country, cross sectoral initiative, implemented in Afghanistan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, and co-funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the Aga Khan Foundation Canada. “In our projects across Pakistan and the neighbouring region, we saw how development and research inform each other,” said Dr Anjum Halai, Professor and Vice Provost for AKU in Asia and UK. “This is not research as an afterthought, it is woven into the fabric of the project on women’s empowerment, well-being, and health. Guided by the PPPP framework – Passion, Partnership, Purposeful, Publications – we advanced both knowledge creation and its dissemination.”