Seyed Shahmy is a Pharmacologist, a Biostatistician and Chartered Manager with over 20 years of  experence in the field of Science Administration, in partiuclarly resource-poor settings.

His research is mainly focused on analysing the impact of public policies and society enegement in crafting the science policies and econometrics models on assessing the return on investment in S&T. Currenlty, he serves as editor and reviewer for a number of internationally reputed journals in the health care sector.