Shah Mohammad Fahim is a Ph.D. student in Nutrition, working with Dr. Saurabh Mehta. He is a physician and earned his MBBS from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He later earned his M.P.H. in Epidemiology with Summa-Cum-Laude distinction from the American International University, Bangladesh. Before joining the Mehta Research Group, he was working for the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) conducting research on maternal and child nutrition. Fahim is passionate about understanding the complex biological interplay between nutrition, inflammation, and gut microbial dysbiosis in children, adolescents, and women of reproductive age. He is keen to explore and validate non-invasive biomarkers for nutrition and inflammation assessment and investigate the effectiveness of personalized nutrition interventions for the management of nutritional impairments.

  • Fahim SM, Miah M, Marcotte M, Zoria N, Ahmed M, Huey SL, Erickson D, Finkelstein JL, Mehta S. Saliva as a Matrix for Primary Care: Feasibility and Scoping of Its Use for Assessment of Nutrition and Inflammation. Advances in Nutrition. 2026 May 1;17(5):100625.
  • Fahim SM, Huey SL, Molina XE, Agarwal N, Ridwan P, Ji N, Kibbee M, Kuriyan R, Finkelstein JL, Mehta S. Gut microbiome‐based interventions for the management of obesity in children and adolescents aged up to 19 years. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2025(7).
  • Mehta S, Huey SL, Fahim SM, Sinha S, Rajagopalan K, Ahmed T, Knight R, Finkelstein JL. Advances in artificial intelligence and precision nutrition approaches to improve maternal and child health in low resource settings. Nature communications. 2025 Aug 18;16(1):7673.
  • Mehta S, Allen LH, Bailey RL, Boushey CJ, Duggan CP, Crouter SE, Engle-Stone R, Fahim SM, Gibbs K, Hernandez E, Huey SL. Application of an ecological approach to assessment of nutrition in school-aged children—a report from the “Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)” Project Working Group 3. The Journal of nutrition. 2025 Oct 30:101217.
M.P.H., American International University, Bangladesh
M.B.B.S., University of Dhaka, Bangladesh