Saurabh Mehta

About

Professor Saurabh Mehta's research primarily focuses on the intersection of nutrition, micronutrient supplementation, and infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. His work extensively explores the effects of vitamins, including vitamin A and vitamin D, on HIV-infected patients, investigating nutritional indicators related to adverse pregnancy outcomes and mother-to-child transmission of HIV. He has contributed to understanding the role of micronutrients in disease progression, anemia, mortality, and morbidity among HIV-infected populations, with a significant emphasis on studies conducted in Tanzania and India. Professor Mehta's research also addresses the impact of nutritional status on treatment outcomes and child health in the context of infectious diseases, including the role of vitamin D in tuberculosis treatment and the effects of zinc supplementation in pediatric pneumonia cases. Additionally, his work extends to the development and application of innovative diagnostic technologies, such as smartphone platforms for quantifying vitamin D levels, demonstrating a commitment to advancing both clinical and technological approaches to global health challenges.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Biology
• Environmental health
• Immunology
• Political Science
• Gerontology
• Bioinformatics
• Intensive care medicine
• Demography

Selected publications

• Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 through breast milk and breastfeeding: a living systematic review

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 173 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by infection with a novel coronavirus strain, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). At present, there is limited information on potential transmission of the infection from mother to child, particularly through breast milk and breastfeeding. Here, we provide a living systematic review to capture information that might necessitate changes in the guidance on breast milk and breastfeeding given the uncertainty…

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• Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

  The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2021 · 166 citations

  BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, causing more than a million deaths annually. Given an emphasis on equity in access to diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in global health targets, evaluations of differences in tuberculosis burden by sex are crucial. We aimed to assess the levels and trends of the global burden of tuberculosis, with an emphasis on investigating differences in sex by HIV status for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019…

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• Vitamin B-12 and the Gastrointestinal Microbiome: A Systematic Review

  Advances in Nutrition · 2021 · 92 citations

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• Current state of the art in rapid diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance

  Lab on a Chip · 2020 · 72 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a fundamental global concern analogous to climate change threatening both public health and global development progress. Infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens pose serious threats to healthcare and human capital. If the increasing rate of AMR is left uncontrolled, it is estimated that it will lead to 10 million deaths annually by 2050. This global epidemic of AMR necessitates radical interdisciplinary solutions to better detect antimicrobial sus…

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• A roadmap for integrating nutritional assessment, counselling, and support into the care of people with tuberculosis

  The Lancet Global Health · 2025-03-19 · 16 citations

  reviewOpen access

  Undernutrition-the leading risk factor for tuberculosis worldwide-is associated with impaired immunity, more extensive disease, delayed sputum conversion, and worse treatment outcomes, including mortality. In this Health Policy, we propose a comprehensive roadmap for integrating nutritional assessment, counselling, and support into tuberculosis treatment as part of person-centred care. At treatment initiation, we recommend standard nutritional assessment with anthropometric measurements and haem…

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Recent grants

• FeverPhone: Point of Care Diagnosis of Acute Febrile Illness using a Mobile Device

  NIH · $3.0M · 2020–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Julia L. Finkelstein

  Cornell University

  161 shared

• Wafaie Fawzi

  Harvard University

  88 shared

• Karim Manji

  Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

  53 shared

• David Erickson

  Cornell University

  52 shared

• Taha E. Taha

  Johns Hopkins University

  49 shared

• Charles Chasela

  49 shared

• Alicia Young

  49 shared

• Elizabeth R. Brown

  Fred Hutch Cancer Center

  49 shared

Education

• Postdoctoral Training, Nutrition

  Harvard School of Public Health

  2010

• Sc.D., Epidemiology, Nutrition

  Harvard University

  2009

• S.M., Epidemiology

  Harvard University

  2004

• M.B.B.S.

  All India Institute of Medical Sciences

  2002

Awards & honors

• NIH technology accelerator challenge prize for innovative gl…
• Norman Kretchmer memorial award for nutrition and developmen…
• Rainer Gross Prize for innovations in nutrition and health
• SUNY Chancellor award for scholarship and creative activitie…

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