Farah Yehia is a doctor in Health Services Research and Policy and a Healthcare Consulting Manager based out of the UAE. Her work focuses on healthcare system transformations in the GCC and her research interests lie in mental health policy, health economic impact assessment, and pharmaceutical drug pricing. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Yehia worked for 3 years on mental health system reforms in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut Medical Center and co-founded “Embrace” where she worked closely on the inception of the region’s first suicide prevention helpline. She has also served as a Research Affiliate for the Knowledge-to-Policy Center at the American University of Beirut since 2013 helping deliver evidence-informed recommendations to policymakers on priority public health issues. She holds numerous publications in refereed journals including JAMA Internal Medicine and the Annual Review of Public Health and has presented her research at multiple academic conferences including the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and Academy Health. She is also a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society and former president of the Arab Public Health Organization at Johns Hopkins.

Farah earned her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2020 and her Master’s in Public Health and Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut.