Amna Qayyum
Global Health Institute
Amna Qayyum serves as Research Program Director for the Faith and Global Health Initiative at Georgetown University Global Health Institute. Trained as a historian, her research focuses on how gender, health, and religion shape political economy and global governance. Her current book project focuses on the politics of reproductive health in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Her research has been awarded the 2021 Pirzada Prize in Pakistan Studies by the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Georgetown, Qayyum was a Fellow at The Brookings Institution, directing a research portfolio and fellowship program on gender and global development. She has also held a postdoctoral appointment at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University and has served as an expert advisor to the Government of Pakistan and the New America Foundation on gender, health, and human security. Her writing and commentary have appeared in Diplomatic History, the Washington Post, and the Brookings platform. She holds a doctoral degree from Princeton University.
Career Highlights:
- Recognized with the 2021 Pirzada Prize in Pakistan Studies by the University of California, Berkeley.
- Coordinated a Brookings visiting fellowship for scholar-practitioners from across the Global South.
- Awarded research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Foundation, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Economics and History, and the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, among other institutions.
- Regular contributor to thought leadership and analysis, including for The Washington Post and Brookings.
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