Professor Shahid Jameel is the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies.

He is well known for his research on hepatitis E and HIV. Previously, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance; Director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University; and head of Virology at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Professor Jameel has published three books, written a number of articles and served on a number of editorial and advisory boards.