Alayne Adams

Dr. Alayne Adams joined McGill University in September 2019, following a three-year tenure in the Department of International Health at Georgetown University in Washington DC. From 2010 to 2016 she lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she held the position of Senior Social Scientist at the icddr,b, a reputed international population health research center. Dr. Adams was also involved in the founding of the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health, and its Center for Urban Equity and Health. Her relationship with both institutions continues to the present, with appointments as Adjunct Scientist and Professor, respectively. Prior to Bangladesh, Dr. Adams served as Executive Director of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS, a global research-to-policy collaboration involving international and bilateral agencies, NGOs, foundations and northern and southern academic partners. She began her academic career at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health following post-doc work as a MacArthur Fellow at the Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies. A recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship, she completed her PhD in Public Health and an MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was also a James McGill scholar, earning her BA honors in political science and international development at McGill University. She is currently leading Population Health activities within the Department of Family Medicine, and acts as liason with McGill’s new School of Population and Global Health.