Dr. Zahra Shakeri is the NSERC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Precision Public Health and Health Informatics and an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics and Information Visualization at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She holds cross-appointments with the Faculty of Information and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto.

In 2022 Dr. Shakeri founded the Health Informatics, Visualization, and Equity (HIVE) Lab, which develops responsible artificial intelligence for public health, clinical decision support, and data-driven storytelling that advances health equity. Her research program integrates natural language processing, information visualization, AI safety, causal inference, and social media analytics to create patient-centred digital health solutions. Dr. Shakeri earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Calgary and completed postdoctoral training in the Gehlenborg Lab, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.