Dr. Iqbal Shah is a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

He is currently Principal Investigator for the WIE project and the study on the impact and performance of Institutionalizing Immediate Postpartum IUD services in Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania (PPIUD project). For nearly three decades, Dr. Shah worked in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) and the Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP) at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Shah was responsible for research and research capacity-building activities in Social Science and Operations Research in sexual and reproductive health as well as coordinating the team on Preventing Unsafe Abortion. He has published on a number of topics, including, among others, contraception, abortion, infertility and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.