10 Facts About Jemilah Mahmood

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Jemilah Mahmood's has served as Pro-Chancellor of the Heriot-Watt University Malaysia since September 2021, Professor and Executive Director of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health since August 2021, and Senior Fellow at the Adrienne-Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center.

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Jemilah Mahmood's served as Special Advisor to the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin on Public Health from March 2020 to August 2021 and Under-Secretary General for Partnerships in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from January 2016 to 2020.

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Jemilah Mahmood's became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the United Kingdom, and received training in various subspecialties of gynaecology in the United Kingdom.

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Jemilah Mahmood has completed the Program for Executive Development at the International Institute of Management and Development in Lausanne, Switzerland as well.

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Jemilah Mahmood's started her career in Kuala Lumpur General Hospital, and was a lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Medical Faculty of UKM until 1995.

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Jemilah Mahmood's served as a research fellow at Tokyo University, and became a fellow of the UK Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2004.

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Jemilah Mahmood's was the Vice President for the Malaysian Menopause Organisation from 1999 to 2000.

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From 2009 to 2011, Dr Jemilah Mahmood was in charge of the humanitarian branch of the United Nations Population Fund in New York City, where she directed her efforts toward reproductive health, gender-based violence, and emergency population data.

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In May 2014, Jemilah Mahmood was appointed to head the World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs headquarters in New York.

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Jemilah Mahmood is married to Ashar Abdullah, and they have two sons.

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