Healthful Eating as Lifestyle (HEAL)

Shirin Anil is a medical doctor, an Epidemiologist & Biostatistician, and Endeavour Executive Fellow in Nutritional epidemiology, having extensive experience in the fields of global health, nutrition, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), infectious diseases, and mother and child health in developed & developing countries. She has conducted and presented more than fifty research projects in Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Spain, France, China, Pakistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, with publications in peer reviewed journals like the Lancet, BMC Gastroenterology, BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, British Journal of Surgery, Frontiers of Medicine, Global Health Action, and Journal of Human Hypertension. Her major projects include project LIFE (Lifestyle Interventions For Eradication of NCDs), a community led intervention for the control of diabetes, obesity, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, dietary patterns associated to high blood pressure, smoking in the general population, preventive medicine education for chronic diseases, complimentary & alternative medicine in cancer patients, association of artificial night light and cancer in 158 countries globally, factors associated to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Hepatocellular cancer, nutrition in celiac disease in children and randomized controlled trials for early screening and management of diabetes, hypertension, chronic respiratory diseases, and early childhood development interventions in primary healthcare settings.Dr. Anil manages the Victorian Congenital Anomalies Register with over 3,000 notifications of congenital anomalies in more than 75,000 births per year at the Department of Health and Human Services in Victoria, Australia. She is Consultant Epidemiologist & Statistician at the Association for Social Development, Pakistan. In an honorary capacity, she is serving on the council of True Health Initiative, a coalition of more than 250 global health experts from 30 countries, and also as the Team Lead for NCDs prevention & control at the Aga Khan Development Network (community health team) in Australia and UAE. Dr. Anil is the reviewer of many journals including Journal of the American College of Nutrition, SAGE Open Medicine, Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Patient Safety, and Journal of Royal Society of Medicine. She is also on the editorial board of MOJ Public Health, was advisor to the editorial board for the International Journal of Medical Students, and was regional advisor for the Lancet Student.