Amna Qayyum is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia, and holds a concurrent appointment as a Fellow with the Faith and Global Health Initiative at Georgetown University. Her research areas include public health and medicine, development and governance, and the political economy of international aid, expertise, and institutions. She recently gave a talk spotlighted in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies Friday Speaker Series, entitled "Salt and Sponge: Women's Welfare and Reproductive Experimentation in Pakistan".

Her current book project narrates the history of authoritarianism in Pakistan through the lens of global reproductive governance. Qayyum's research has been recognized with the 2021 Pirzada Prize in Pakistan Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Foundation, among others. Her research and commentary have appeared in Diplomatic History, The Washington Post, The Lancet, and Brookings.