Jemilah Mahmood

Advisory board member

Executive Director of the Sunway Center for Planetary Health at Sunway University

Jemilah Mahmood is a Malaysian medical professional and currently Executive Director of the Sunway Center for Planetary Health at Sunway University in Malaysia. She has more than two decades of experience in crisis management globally and worked in conflict, disasters and health crises. Dr. Mahmood’s previous appointments include Special Advisor to the former Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health during the height of the COVID pandemic. She was formally the Under
Secretary General for Partners at IFRC.