Amna Qayyum
Global Health Institute
Amna Qayyum is a fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, where she co-leads a policy research portfolio and directs a visiting fellowship focused on gender, education, and global development. She also advises the Georgetown University Global Health Institute (GUGHI) on the intersection of religion and global health; she will join GUGHI full-time in January 2025 as the research program director for the Faith and Global Health Initiative. Trained as a historian, her research examines intersections between gender, health, and religion in global governance and political economy. She is currently completing her book manuscript, titled Pakistan and the Rise of Global Reproductive Governance, which examines the governance of reproductive health and rights in Pakistan and Bangladesh. She has also held appointments as a postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and has served as an expert advisor on gender and human security for the New America Foundation and the Government of Pakistan’s National Security Division. As an educator, Qayyum has taught university and refugee learners through Princeton’s Global History Lab. 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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