I have worked in areas of sleep research, epidemiology, the development and psychometric validation of health and behavior outcome measures, and the relationship between sleep and mental health. During my doctoral training and the period of the first five years after completing my Ph.D., my research interests were epidemiology of sleep disorders-prevalence and associated factors, psychometrics of questionnaire tools to screen sleep disorders, and sleep-inflammation interactions. In recent years, apart from sleep research, I am exploring the epidemiology of mental health conditions, the development, and validation of tools to screen mental health and sleep disorders in special populations. I developed four questionnaire tools to assess metacognitive abilities, sleep quality in people with poor sleep hygiene, the health impact of khat (an addictive substance) use, and a modified version of an insomnia screening tool (Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire- Mizan version; LSEQ-M). One of the significant implementations of my work is the use of the LSEQ-M questionnaire tool in a large multi-country clinical trial by Clinical R&D at Cara Therapeutics, Stanford, Southwest Connecticut, USA I collaborate extensively with eminent scholars in my research area to work on secondary projects. This allows me to learn, build experience and publish with the most esteemed and distinguished scientists. Apart from my research areas, I regularly collaborate with eminent/pre-eminent scholars from both developing/ developed countries. I am responsible for establishing and executing analysis plans in a number of these collaborative endeavors. As a fellow of four prestigious national scholarships (Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Medical Research; National Eligibility Test, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE); and Catch Them Young Award jointly given by Dr. B R Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Engineering and Research, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), and a graduate student of a director of a research center (Centre for Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences) in a top-ranked federal university (Jamia Millia Islamia-a federal university), I had the advantage of participating in many supplementary research projects during their conceptualization, write-up, defense, and dissemination plan. Later on, I contested and won various national-level prestigious grants for research projects, and published the results in peer-reviewed journals. In recognition of my research achievements, I received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Deanship of Scientific Research at Majmaah University in 2020. Current Research Portfolio Currently, I am working on multiple projects. Some of these are in the implementation phase, while others are in the publication phase. The majority of these initiatives reflect my field of interest, which is sleep problems, health condition epidemiology, psychometrics, health and behavioral outcome, and electrophysiology. In one of my recent projects, we tried to build a Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnostic prediction score based on clinical markers. In a project in the publication phase, we explored the role of daytime sleepiness as a mediator in the link between sleep and fatigue severity in Subacute Stroke survivors. Another project examines the impact of sleep and chronotype disorders in nurses on patient outcomes. The first component of this project was recently published; it proved the validity of an insomnia screening tool in nurses using a very robust psychometric strategy. Now, we are developing the manuscript following other objectives. Future Research Priorities In my future research, I plan to evaluate the impact of the sleep disorder-mental health relationship on societal outcomes in health professionals, substance users, and other special populations. I will explore and try to establish aspects of this prospective impact using robust longitudinal designs involving objective and subjective parameters. I will build on the expected outcome to devise strategies to improve societal outcomes. This later research objective will investigate the application of interventional modules, likely to be developed based on the outcome of the first leg of studies. I am keenly interested in developing a fully-equipped laboratory investigating sleep-cognition association with a focus on developing interventional modules to improve social outcomes.