Nirav Dinesh Shah (1977) is an American epidemiologist, economist and attorney. He received both a Juris Doctor and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Chicago and worked as an economist and epidemiologist at the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Shah practiced law at Sidley Austin before being appointed as the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, serving in that role until 2019. Shah is currently the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and was the public face of Maine's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, holding regular televised press conferences beginning in early March 2020.