The LabOpp Global Leaders podcast is a series of conversations about Careers, the Lab Industry, Training, and People. Our special guest in this episode is Zia Ashraf.  Medical laboratory professionals most commonly specialize in supporting diagnoses of patients to help them stay alive. But those same skills can also be used to help diagnose causes of death. Some take up this endeavour to focus their skills on forensics and better identify the cause of death. Zia is one of those professionals having been previously employed by the Punjab Forensic Science Agency. Beyond performing diligent analysis of both the living and dead, he has focused on lecturing at the Government College University, Faisalabad. He is an active member of the Pakistan Biological Safety Association as a Biosafety Trainer and for the past few years, the Punjab provincial Chapter head. If you would like to get in touch with Zia, you can find him on LinkedIn. Some of the organizations mentioned during this podcast: · Nishtar Medical University https://nmu.edu.pk/ · Bahauddin Zakariya University https://www.bzu.edu.pk/ · Chughtais Lahore Lab https://chughtailab.com/ · Punjab Forensic Science Agency https://pfsa.punjab.gov.pk/ · Government College University Faisalabad https://gcuf.edu.pk/ · Pakistan Biological Safety Association https://pbsa.org.pk/ If you have suggestions for future guests or comments about this podcast, please visit us at labopp.org/podcast/ Thank you for leaving a rating and review to help us share this podcast!