Rasha Bayoumi is a health psychologist. She has been involved in research, clinical practice and teaching for the past two decades, in Canada, the UK, US, Sudan and Oman. She has worked for the World Health Organization on mental health and reproductive health. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research interests include reproductive health, infertility and pregnancy loss, gender-based violence, women’s health, quality of life, and eating disorders.
She has extensive experience working on multicultural and multidisciplinary projects. She joined the University of Birmingham Dubai in 2021, where she has been the Head of Research for the Dubai campus for over two years. Through this role she manages and develops the research portfolio, exemplifying her commitment to advancing knowledge and fostering an inclusive approach to research.
In 2024, she was appointed as Co-Chair of the UAE Universities Climate Network (UCN), where she has strategic and operational responsibilities aimed at advancing the network's mission of fostering academic engagement. Through this role, she will be spearheading initiatives to advance climate action regionally and internationally, while promoting sustainability across the UAE’s academic sector.