vector biologist National Institute of Health Islamabad Pakistan
10 years of experience
Dr. Shah Fahad has done his bachelor’s degree in Zoology from University of Peshawar and earned his master’s degree (with thesis on epidemiology of dengue Infection) in Zoology from University of Malakand, Dir (lower). He completed his M.Phil degree (with thesis on molecular & serotyping analysis of dengue vector Aedes aegypti) in Zoology from Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab. After completing M.Phil, Immediately he qualified the test and interview for his Ph.D admission in Pakistan top ranked university, Quaid-i-Azam university Islamabad, Pakistan. Fahad’s area of specialization is “Biological control and management of different disease vectors in Pakistan”. I have also done my Master of Public Health in 2025 from Health Services Academy, Prime Minister’s National Health Complex, Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad. He has begun his professional career from lectureship in Malalay Medical university Kandahar, Afghanistan. Dr. Fahad worked with the Health Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under Integrated Vector Control (IVC)/Malaria Control Program (MCP), as Medical Entomologist of district Mansehra for 2 years. Dr. Fahad was selected to attend “VI ICGEB workshop on Human RNA viruses in Fudan university Shanghai, China” October 26-28, 2018 and were awarded for travel grant certificate. Mr. Fahad enjoys a very strong research outlook and has published many research articles in well reputed national and international journals. He has been chosen multiple times by different universities and research centers for “scientific talks” and invited for conferences & workshops as speaker. I have worked as visiting faculty (coordinator) of Medical Entomology & Disease Vector Control (MEDVC) and Manager Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) in Health Services Academy, Prime Minister’s National Health Complex, Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad from 2021 to 2025. Dr. Fahad is of now working as vector biologist in the Integrated Disease Surveillance & Response (IDSRS), National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad.
I am teaching the Communicable diseases, environment and climate change, outbreak control and investigations, vector biology, IDSRS, IHR, GHS since 2021. I have expertise on GC-MS, FTIR, UV and NMR.
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