Mareyba Fawad, MPH is a public health professional whose career spans federal consulting, health policy, and global health. Currently, she is a Federal Health Policy Consultant at Acumen LLC in San Francisco, where she leads projects for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). At Acumen, she also serves as Chair of the DEI Workgroup, overseeing more than 500 employees. Previously, she worked as a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC, delivering recommendations to more than eight CMS divisions. Additionally, she served as Health Policy Consultant for UN Women, worked in the Public Health Law Division at the CDC, co-authored research published in Nature Human Behavior, and founded the Minority Health Sciences Conference.

Internationally, Mareyba served as Head Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, raising women’s health concerns on a global stage, delivering an oral statement at the UN, and directing two official UN events on gender equity and public health. She also worked directly with Chelsea Clinton on comparative global health systems research. Nationally, her contributions include serving as Vice President of the Southern California Public Health Association and, previously, as the youngest Health Policy Chair and Conference Director in the 85-year history of the Oklahoma Public Health Association, where she pioneered a statewide event planning model recognized by the American Public Health Association.

Her trailblazing impact has earned her the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the University of Oklahoma out of 25,000 individuals, the Young Health Professional of the Year by the Public Health Institute of Oklahoma, Oklahoma’s NextGen Under 30 honor, the Bernard Challenor Prize from Columbia University, and election as the youngest individual and only Pakistani to the Columbia University School of Public Health Alumni Board. Mareyba holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University.