​Dr. Fayaz Umrani

Manager

Department of Community Health Sciences

  • December 2022-present Aga khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Public Health Research Manager
  • ​August 2014-2022  Aga khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Public health  Research Specialist
  • October 2011 -December,2015 Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Clinical trial  Study physician
  • December 2008 -September 2011 Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Randomized, double blind study. Research Medical Officer
  • September 2002- August 2003 Liaquat university of medical and health sciences Hospital, Hyderabad/ Jamshoro, Pakistan Clinical internship in Medicine and Pediatrics House officer
  • 2006 -2013 University of Sindh, Jamshoro Business Administration MBA Executive (Evening program)
  • 1996-2001 Sindh University, Jamshoro, Pakistan Medicine M.B.B.S.

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  • Assessing quality of life and well-being of flood affected families after rehabilitation through a lowcost, eco- friendly housing initiative: a cross-sectional observational survey
    11/2023 – CURRENT​
  • Paternal epigenetic association with infant birth weight Primary Objective
    2023 – CURRENT
  • Comprehensive Profiling of Social Mixing Patterns in Pakistan
    2023 – CURRENT
  • Percentage decline in pneumococcal carriage and change in serotype distribution after a switch from PCV10 to PCV13 in infants in a rural site in Matiari.​
    2023-CURRENT
  • Examining Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Human Microbiome
    2022 – 2023
  • Human Small Intestinal Organoids Model Of SARS-Cov-2 Replication
    2022 – 2023 
  • RAISE Raising Younger Siblings Adversity and Inequities: Sibling Engagement/Educators
    2021 – 2022 ​
  • Effectiveness of Counseling for Dietary Uptake of Moringa Oleifera in A Rural Community Public Health Nutrition
    2022 – 2023
  • The ability of the Probiotic Vivomixx to improve environmental enteropathy in pregnant women: a proof-of-concept trial in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Senegal, and Zambia (MPIGH study) funded by BMGF
    2022 – CURRENT
  • Grand Challenges Fermented Food - Achars (fermented pickles) in Pakistan Public Health
    2021 – 2022 
  • Large Scale Moringa Oleifera tree plantation in Rural Sindh, Pakistan, and its Impact on Community and Environment Public Health
    2020 – 2022
  • Barriers and facilitators to exclusive breastfeeding in rural Pakistan
    2019 – 2020
  • Construction of A Healthy Synthetic Gut Microbiome Community for The Pakistani Rural Community
    2016 – 2018 
  • Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition in Pakistan SEEM Pakistan
    2014 – 2021 ​



  • Integrative–'Omics and Machine-Learning-Based Image Analyses of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Reveal an Immunologic and Metabolic Pathogenesis of Intestinal Failure
    Read full article here​
  • Supplemental Data from: Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide
    Read full article here​
  • Impact of diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection on environmental enteric dysfunction and growth of malnourished children in Pakistan: a longitudinal cohort study
    Read full article here 
  • Standard RUTF vs. locally-made RUSF for acutely malnourished children: A quasi-experimental comparison of the impact on growth and compliance in a rural community of Pakistan
    Read full article here
  • Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings
    Read full article here
  • Quantitative Morphometry and Machine Learning Model to Explore Duodenal and Rectal Mucosal Tissue of Children with Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
    Read full article here​
  • Impact of enteropathogens on faltering growth in a resource-limited setting
    Read full article here 
  • Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low-and middle-income countries
    Read full article here
  • Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low- and middle-income countries
    Read full article here
  • Children Raising Children: A cross-sectional survey of parental perceptions and practices regarding sibling caretaking in rural Pakistan
    Read full article here 
  • Clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes are linked to a limited set of taxa within gut microbiome worldwide
    Read full article here​ 
  • Association of Anti-Rotavirus IgA Seroconversion with Growth, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Enteropathogens in Rural Pakistani Infants
    Read full article here 
  • Barriers and facilitators to exclusive breastfeeding in rural Pakistan: a qualitative exploratory study
    Read full article here  
  • Distance from healthcare facilities is associated with increased morbidity of acute infection in pediatric patients in Matiari, Pakistan
    Read full article here 
  • CORE MICROBIOME OF MALNOURISHED CHILDREN WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION
    Read full article here 
  • ​Implementation challenges from a prospective, interventional biopsy-based study of Environmental Enteropathy in rural Pakistan
    Read full article here  
  • Gut integrity and duodenal enteropathogen burden in undernourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction
    Read full article here 
  • Mucosal genomics implicates lymphocyte activation and lipid metabolism in refractory environmental enteric dysfunction
    Read full article here     
  • Su094 IMMUNE AND METABOLIC PATHOGENESIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION IN CHILDHOOD UNDERNUTRITION: A BIRTH INCEPTION COHORT
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  • Geospatial and Social Factors Influencing Morbidity due to Acute Infection in Pediatric Patients in Matiari, Rural Pakistan.
    Read full article here  
  • INTERNET ADDICTION AMONG UNDERGRADUTE MEDICAL STUDENTS IN HYDERABAD, PAKISTAN.
    Read full article here  
  • Mo1173 TRANSNASAL ENDOMICROSCOPY FOR UNSEDATED OCT IMAGING OF THE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT IN INFANTS
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  • Machine learning model demonstrates stunting at birth and systemic inflammatory biomarkers as predictors of subsequent infant growth–a four-year prospective study
    Read full article here  
  • Study of Environmental Enteropathy and Malnutrition (SEEM) in Pakistan: protocols for biopsy based biomarker discovery and validation
    Read full article here​ 
  • ​Pathobiome driven gut inflammation in Pakistani children with Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
    Read full article here  
  • Duodenal biopsies classification and understanding using convolutional neural networks
    Read full article here 
  • HISTOPATHOLOGICAL GRADING OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERIC DYSFUNCTION (EED) IN THE SEEM STUDY
    Read full article here  
  • Promising Biomarkers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction: A Prospective Cohort Study in Pakistani Children.​​​​
    Read full article here 
  • Environmental enteropathy in undernourished Pakistani children: clinical and histomorphometric analyses
    Read full article here 
  • Serum anti-flagellin and anti-lipopolysaccharide immunoglobulins as predictors of linear growth faltering in Pakistani infants at risk for environmental enteric dysfunction
    Read full article here 
  • High SMAD7 and p-SMAD2, 3 expression is associated with environmental enteropathy in children
    Read full article here 
  • Respiratory viruses associated with severe pneumonia in children under 2 years old in a rural community in Pakistan
    Read full article here​