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Dr. She​raz Ahmed

Senior Manager

Department of Community Health Sciences


  • Senior Manager Research, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi
    (August 2020- Present​)
  • Manager Research, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, ​Aga Khan University, Karachi​ 
    (August 2014- July 2020)​
  • Research Specialist, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi
    (September 2006- September 2014)
  • 2018: Master in Vaccinology and Pharmaceutical Clinical Development, University of Siena, Italy.
  • 2005: Master in Health Services and Public Health Research, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
  • 2002: M.B.B.S, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, Pakistan.​










  • Maternal Probiotic Intervention to improve Gut Health (MPIGH) (November 2022- Present).
  • Fremented Food study (December 2021- October 2022).
  • Moringa plantation in Rural Sindh (March 2020-July 2022).
  • Capsule endomicroscopy for visualization of the small intestine in EED population in Pakistan
    (November 2019- Present).
  • Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition in Pakistan (SEEM Pakistan)​ (September 2015- October 2019).
  • Indirect effect of PCV10 on nasopharyngeal carriage in children under 2 years of age in a rural community in Pakistan (August 2014- December 2018)​.
  • Supplement to Aetiology of Neonatal Infection in South Asia.
    Development of a Community-based Presumptive Clinical Diagnosis Algorithm and Treatment Regimen for Maternal Puerperal Sepsis (August 13 – July 2014)​.
  • Using ongoing newborn intervention trials to obtain additional data on burden, timing and causes of maternal deaths, maternal morbidity, stillbirths and neonatal deaths critical to maternal, fetal and newborn health in a harmonized way: The AMANHI study (Jan 13- July 2014).
  • Aetiology of Neonatal Infection in South Asia (ANISA)
    (Jan 2011- December 2013).
  • Effect of zinc supplementation on response to oral polio vaccine in infants in Pakistan: a randomized, controlled trial
    (June 2010-Jan 2011).
  • Cluster Randomized Trial of Community Case Management of the Severe Pneumonia with Oral Amoxicillin in Children 2-59 Months of age in Matiari District, Pakistan
    (May 2007 – May 2010).
  • Hala Perinatal & Newborn care Project
    (September 2006 - April 2007).
  • Analysis of the implementation of recommendations on obesity in the UK (Feb 2005 - July 2005).


  • ​​​​​​Pneumococcal carriage and changes in serotype distribution po​st-​PCV13 introduction in children in Matiari, Pakistan.
    Read full article here​
  • ​Anthropometry relationship with duodenal histologic features of children with environmental enteric dysfunction: a multicenter cross-sectional study.
    Read full article here
  • Duodenal transcriptomics demonstrates signatures of tissue inflammation and immune cell infiltration in children with environmental enteric dysfunction across global centers.
    Read full article here
  • The Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Biopsy Initiative (EEDBI) Consortium: mucosal investigations of environmental enteric dysfunction.
    Read ful article here
  • Nutrient dataset development via FAO/INFOODS approach for infant nutritional survey in rural Matiari, Pakistan.
    Read full article here
  • Machine-learning-based integrative–‘omics analyses reveal immunologic and metabolic dysregulation in environmental enteric dysfunction.
    Read full article here
  • A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction.
    Read full article here
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