HAYAT AHMED

Hayat Ahmed, MSc, is a Program Manager at the MRCT Center. She joined the Center in August 2017 and has advanced through multiple roles, contributing to strategic initiatives that strengthen global clinical research ethics and inclusion.

Hayat leads and supports several key initiatives within the Representation in Research Portfolio, Oversight and Implementation of Decentralized Elements in Clinical Trials, and Research Ethics Committee Systems Optimization across Africa.

Before joining the MRCT Center, Hayat worked with the John Snow Research & Training Institute and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on global health initiatives. At JSI, she supported the DREAMS Innovation Challenge, helping track and analyze reports from 46 grantees working to reduce HIV infections among young women in ten African countries. She also contributed to the Fenot Project in Ethiopia, preparing evaluations of new Family Health Team models and analyzing the link between antenatal care quality and newborn mortality. Prior to that, she conducted research as a Technical Research Assistant in an HIV/AIDS laboratory within the Department of Infectious Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Hayat holds a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Mount Holyoke College.