Aliya leads the foundation’s health initiatives in the United States, including its work in the Greater Austin medical community, as well as its Humanitarian Health efforts in Africa. Her work draws on both her medical background and her understanding that health is shaped by factors beyond clinical settings.
Aliya joined the foundation in 2008 after earning degrees in biology and economics from Swarthmore College, attending medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and completing her pediatrics residency and chief residency at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. She later trained as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also earned a master’s in health policy research.
In addition to her role at the foundation, Aliya is a practicing pediatrician at People’s Community Clinic in Austin and affiliate faculty at Dell Medical School in the departments of pediatrics and population health.
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