Assistant professor and vice chair for research at the department of paediatrics and child health at the Aga Khan University
He is a public health researcher with a fondness for data and leads the CITRIC center for bioinformatics at the Aga Khan University
His area of work includes infectious diseases, maternal, newborn & child health, early childhood growth, development, and nutrition
He is the Pakistan site Principal Investigator for the WHO coordinated Global Scale for Early Childhood Development (GSED) validation study and development of norms and standards
He has published extensively on Global Burden of Disease (GBD) with the Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME), Seattle, USA
He co-leads a biorepository at AKU (the AMANHI biobank) that aims to answer questions on adverse pregnancy outcomes using classical epidemiological and cutting edge multiomics approach