Amna Qayyum is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia, and holds a concurrent appointment as a Fellow with the Faith and Global Health Initiative at Georgetown University. Her research areas include the political economy and geopolitics of health and medicine, gender and faith, and development and global governance.

Qayyum's current book project narrates the history of authoritarianism in Pakistan through a focus on the global reproductive governance. Her research has been recognized with the 2021 Pirzada Prize in Pakistan Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and supported by fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Foundation, among others. Her research and commentary have appeared in Diplomatic History, The Washington Post, The Lancet, and Brookings.

In addition to her scholarly research, Qayyum has directed applied research and policy programs. She previously served as Program Director of the Faith and Global Health Initiative at Georgetown University, where she coordinated the research program of a multidisciplinary Lancet Commission on the changing landscape of trust in health systems, and with which she continues to collaborate as part of the core secretariat. As a former Brookings expert, she led a policy research portfolio focused on gender and development. In both her research and teaching, Qayyum integrates her training in archival methods with her experience in policy research and global health and development practice.

Qayyum was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. She received her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University.

Qayyum is on research leave for the 2026-27 academic year on an ACLS Fellowship.