Huma Malik

Huma Malik is the Co-founder and President of Eniware, Inc., a medical technology company developing and commercializing surgical sterilization systems designed to operate without electricity, clean water, or fixed infrastructure. For more than a decade, Ms. Malik has worked at the intersection of medical device commercialization, regulatory strategy, and operational deployment in environments where conventional health system assumptions fail—including conflict-affected regions, disaster response settings, military and humanitarian operations, and under-resourced hospitals.

At Eniware, she has led product development and regulatory strategy aligned with ISO 13485, guided procurement and deployment with military and humanitarian stakeholders, and worked directly with end users delivering surgery under extreme operational constraints. This field-driven experience has shaped her approach to resilience, risk, and system performance under infrastructure failure.

From Operational Failure to Systems Frameworks

Repeated exposure to system failure led Ms. Malik to formalize the Malik Paradox, which describes why humanitarian surgical systems fail precisely when essential infrastructure such as power, water, and fuel becomes unavailable. Building on this insight, she developed a proposed set of tools to inform how medical technologies are evaluated and procured for crisis settings, including the Infrastructure-Independent Resilience (IIR) Index, the Portfolio Maturity Framework (PMF), and the Zero-Infrastructure Mandate (ZIM).

Elements of this work have been published in a multi-part series, including The Critical Sterilization Gap: A Barrier to Global Surgical Safety, which examines the absence of reliable, infrastructure-independent sterilization as a structural constraint on safe surgery worldwide.

A Sustainable Model for Social Impact

Ms. Malik has advanced a customer-supported business model for global health technology—articulated in the Huffington Post article Doing Well by Doing Good—that emphasizes sustainability over donor dependency. Her critique of categorical funding models is further developed in There Is More to Women’s Health Than Babies, where she argues for integrated health systems capable of sustaining essential surgical care.

Executive and Policy Leadership

Prior to Eniware, Ms. Malik held senior roles at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Georgetown University. At CSIS, she managed the Council of International Counsellors, reporting directly to its Chairman, Dr. Henry Kissinger. At Georgetown, she led a major institutional transition, managing a $20 million grant and earning the Award of Distinction for Outstanding Service. She also co-edited Modernization, Democracy, and Islam.

Ms. Malik holds an M.A. in International Relations, Conflict Resolution, and International Peace from American University and a B.B.A. in International Business from Marymount University. She is a certified Rescue Diver and an experienced outdoorswoman, reflecting a commitment to preparedness and performance in high-stakes environments.