Dr Iman is an international humanitarian and development expert. She specializes in Global Health and International Migration and has spent her career working with UNHCR, WHO and the UN IOM focusing on the intersection of health, migration, and climate change.
Throughout her career, Dr Iman has worked with refugees, internally displaced, and host communities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and at the Geneva Headquarters of WHO and UNHCR, leading public health emergency response programs. In planning and delivering her work, Iman adopts rights-based, human-centered, and localized approaches. Over the last few years, she has been an instrumental actor in coordinating and leading diaspora mutual aid response to the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
She has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum, Sudan.
Selected public speaking:
- The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War, University of Toronto
- Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters, Disaser Phychiatry Canada
Selected publications:
- Collapse of Cancer Care Under the Current Conflict in Sudan, JCO Global Oncology