Academic Rank

Associate

Current Positions

DrPH, MHSA

Department/Institute Affiliation(s)

Dept of International Health| Center for Humanitarian Health

Faculty Member Profile

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/3994/amany-qaddour

Dr. Qaddour is the director of the 501(c)(3) humanitarian NGO Syria Relief & Development. She holds an associate faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health and the school's Center for Humanitarian Health. She holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health along with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Human Biology and Psychology and a Master's in Health Services Administration (MHSA), both from the University of Kansas. For the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a visiting scholar at Brown University in its Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. 

As a passionate practitioner and academic, she has guest lectured on various humanitarian, public health, and human rights topics at various universities, including Johns Hopkins, Brown, Georgetown, Emory, Tulane, American University of Beirut, Carleton University, and the Naval War College. In 2020, she received the Outstanding Leadership & Advocacy Award in Maternal and Child Health by the American Public Health Association. In 2020, she also briefed the United Nations Security Council alongside ERC Mark Lowcock and again in 2021 alongside ERC Martin Griffiths, in addition to other speaking engagements at the Atlantic Council, International Peace Institute, Brookings Institution, United States Institute of Peace, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and The Washington Institute. She has held multiple leadership and advisory roles, including her most recent on the World Health Organization Implementing Best Practices Network Steering Committee and DisasterReady Advisory Group.