Dr Shahinoor is a Research Fellow in Gender and Women's Health in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population anf Global Health. She is a medical anthropologist and holds a PhD in Public Health & Behavioural Science, Master of Public Health, and Master of Social Science (Anthropology).

Shahinoor has expertise in qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method research design focusing on maternal health, childbirth, health equity and Indigenous women's health in low-and middle-income countriers.

She also has substantial knowledge and expertise in conducting and publishing systematic reviews including Cochrane review. Prior to coming to the University of Melbourne, Shahinoor worked as a researcher at icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Rsearch, Bangladesh) and as a Lecturer at Jagannath University, Bangladesh.