About Zinda Research
The clinical intelligence layer
Zinda exists because 1 in 4 humans, South Asians, were excluded from the evidence base that built modern medicine. We are building the clinical intelligence to fix that. Zinda means alive in Urdu.
The method
Standard medicine relies on trials conducted primarily on populations of European descent. When South Asian biology does not map to those findings, the discrepancies are dismissed as lifestyle failures or isolated anomalies. Our method is different: automated harvesters sweep the primary literature daily, aggregating the case reports, small studies, and mechanistic findings that large cohorts ignore, and synthesize them through a clinical framework specific to South Asian biology. Today that is 4,321 sources and counting, every claim cited, every concept graded for the evidence against it as well as for it. The N=1 repository is not anecdote; it is the systematic aggregation of cases standard medicine treats as isolated incidents.
The founder
Omar Saleem, MD
Founder & Clinical Director
A South Asian physician who built Zinda because he saw the gap firsthand. The algorithms were wrong. The risk calculators were wrong. The BMI cutoffs were wrong. Zinda is the platform he wished existed when navigating these questions for his own community.
Follow the work
Long-form writing lives on the Zinda Substack: blog.zinda.health. The observatory on this site updates nightly from the research engine.