Minhal is a Resident Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He obtained his MD from Harvard Medical School. Prior to that, he was an Engineer, Process Development at CRISPR Therapeutics. As a 2020 Mitchell Scholar, he studied Public Health at University College Cork. He immigrated to the United States from Pakistan at age four, attending five schools in five years before his parents settled in New York. He became interested in how our bodies and health are affected by both our genes and our zip codes at a young age. As an undergraduate in Bioengineering at Northeastern University in Boston, Minhal focused his research on the gut microbiome, the trillions of microorganisms that live in our intestine. In the lab, he studied how the gut ecosystem may affect how we think and feel. Outside the lab, Minhal worked with Peer Health Exchange, a national organization that seeks to advance health equity in under-resourced schools by providing health education. After countless hours teaching health classes in Boston high schools, he was selected as President of the Northeastern campus chapter, one of the largest in the country.

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