Shakila H has completed her PhD from The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai and Postdoctoral studies from Tuberculosis Research Centre (ICMR), Chennai. She is the Associate Professor in the Dept., of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as Life Member in many societies and also Editorial Board Member of reputed journals till 2011. She has also reviewed many manuscripts in journals. 

 Her area of research is immunology and immunopathology of infectious diseases like TB and HIV.