Aula Abbara

Aula Abbara is a clinician-academic, humanitarian and educator who has worked in diverse humanitarian settings. She is the research lead for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) and co-founder of the Syria Public Health Network and Health Professionals for Global Health. She is an infectious diseases and malaria advisor for MSF Amsterdam. In 2025, she commences an MRC/NIHR funded research fellowship on AMR in forced displacement. She also works on the Jameel Institute – Realtime Intelligent Support for Emergencies (JI-RISE), a new initiative at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). JI-RISE delivers critical data – including on traumatic injuries, malnutrition, mortality and vaccination planning – to humanitarian organisations and policymakers amid crises to help them effectively prioritise aid response.