Doctor at a Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center, and a health researcher who has published across cardiology, neurology, infectious disease and mental health. Based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
I am a doctor who works independently or in a team, with research experience in community health programmes, mental health, COVID-19, and communicable and non-communicable diseases.
I started publishing as a medical student and have kept going since. I now work as a house officer at the Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Center in Kathmandu, and I run research and training programmes through two organisations I co-founded.
I serve as an Academic Editor at PLOS One, an international open-access journal. I handle the peer review of submitted manuscripts, from inviting reviewers to weighing their reports, and make editorial recommendations on whether research is sound enough to publish.
Served on the Youth Sounding Board, a panel of young people who give the European Union Delegation in Nepal advice and a youth perspective on its work in the country.
Looked after the finances of Youth for TPNW, a youth network that campaigns for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and took part with the group at the treaty meetings in Vienna (2022) and New York (2023).
Recent coverage of Dr. Sangam Shah’s research and awards.
Young Dr. Sangam, who conducted over 110 studies by age 26
How research work earned him the Young Health Researcher Award from the Nepal Health Research Council.
Dr. Sangam Shah of Maharajgunj Campus receives the ‘Young Health Researcher’ award
Nepal Press reports on the Young Health Researcher Award from the Nepal Health Research Council.
The inaugural award went to Sangam Shah, with a certificate and NPR 50,000 prize at the 2023 ecancer Kathmandu event, from over 30 applications.
Designs and runs research trainings and workshops, and teaches applied biostatistics (simple statistics, regression, modelling) in SPSS.
Data analysis and report writing for a short-term breast cancer screening project.
Coordinates research activities across the team's members.
Led several projects in systematic review and meta-analysis, from methodology to publication.
Managed data for a sexual and reproductive health and mental health project, and led it for a year with DUF funding.
Nepal Health Research Council
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, with NIHR
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Conducted by the Nepal Health Research Council
Funded by Tribhuvan University, Excellence Research Grant.
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Travel grant for an oral talk on prehospital delay in STEMI patients.
Fully funded, Germany.
Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW. Funded to attend and host a session with ICAN, IPPNW and Youth for TPNW.
Fully funded to attend.
Attended with Youth for TPNW.
Selected for poster presentation.
Fully funded to attend.
Travel grant for an oral talk on prehospital delay in STEMI patients.
Fully funded, Germany.
Second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW. Funded to attend and host a session with ICAN, IPPNW and Youth for TPNW.
Fully funded to attend.
Attended with Youth for TPNW.
Selected for poster presentation.
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Received a travel grant from APCMS for an oral presentation.
Oral presentationPrehospital delay in ST elevation myocardial infarction patients and its factors associated; a cross-sectional study in a tertiary hospital in Nepal
Photo: Asia Pacific Cardio Metabolic Syndrome Congress 2025.
Fully funded to attend the Global Summer School in Berlin.
Photo: IPPNW Global Summer School, Berlin.
Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu
Registered medical practitioner, Nepal
Uniglobe Higher Secondary School, Kathmandu