Prof Sadia Shakoor

Sadia Shakoor is Associate Professor of clinical microbiology at the Aga Kahn University in Karachi, Pakistan. She obtained her medical degree and fellowship in clinical microbiology from the Aga Khan University and has since worked as a clinician-researcher and academic faculty at her alma mater.

Her key area of work has been diagnosis and control of infections of public health importance and she has detected, investigated and controlled several infectious outbreaks. She has also served as adviser to the WHO and technical advisor to several multicenter global investigations of infectious diseases.

Major themes of her clinical and research works include antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis, meningitis-encephalitis, and laboratory diagnostics.