Dr. Amber Alayyan is a pediatrician and international public health consultant with over 20 years experience in health care in conflict and post-conflict zones.  Most recently, she has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as the Medical Program Manager for Afghanistan, Palestine, and Haiti and previously for Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Peru.  Her work with MSF over the past 13 years includes missions in the Central African Republic, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan/Syria, Turkey/Syria, Lebanon, Croatia and Greece.  She has also worked as the malnutrition advisor for MSF.  

Prior to working with MSF, she worked as a pediatrician at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, where she also completed her pediatric residency.  She served as a consultant for the WHO in the Occupied Palestinian Territories on pediatric malnutrition policy and with the organization Health Frontiers in post-earthquake Haiti.  She has also worked on pediatric HIV and malnutrition projects in Lesotho and the West Bank/Gaza, respectively.  

Dr. Alayyan, originally from Texas, obtained her medical degree at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and her MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  Prior to her time at LSHTM, she worked in the field of environmental health research as a Fulbright Scholar and a David L. Boren Fellow in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She received her bachelor's degree in Honors Middle East Studies and Microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Her work and research interests include pediatric health care practice and policy in the Middle East and conflict/post-conflict zones, malnutrition, as well as environmental health as it relates to child health in conflict settings.