Amna Qayyum

Research Program Director, Faith and Global Health Initiative, Georgetown University 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 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.