Team
Youth Chapter
Team
Dr. Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz
Director of Youth Affairs
Dr. Mehr Muhammad Adeel Riaz, holding a Doctor of Medicine degree from Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan, currently serves as the Director of Youth Affairs at Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA). He is a distinguished health and social behavior policy researcher with a specialized focus on planetary health, mental health, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), for which he was awarded the Donald J. Cohen Fellowship in 2024. Dr. Riaz’s academic interests encompass scientific pluralism, governance reform in post-colonial states, and issues of gender and sexuality. A significant aspect of his work involves advocating for the inclusion of transgender mental health in the postgraduate psychiatric curriculum in Pakistan. As a former IFMSA Youth Delegate to the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Riaz has demonstrated a strong commitment to global health advocacy. His perspectives on global health equity have been recognized in Forbes magazine, and his contributions to the fields of mental health, climate change, and the transgender community in Pakistan have been published in The Lancet.