Dr. Reem Gaafar has almost 15 years of experience across several countries as an ER clinician, public health researcher, lecturer and writer. She obtained her MPH from University of Liverpool and consults for several entities including the WHO country office in Khartoum, the Transitional Sudanese Government and Federal Ministry of Health, and the Sudan COVID-19 Research Group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 
Her experience includes knowledge translation in written and audiovisual form to promote health and citizen empowerment, and her research interests include social determinants of health, social justice, and advancing the role of women in political change. She writes for several platforms, has over 150 published blogs, articles and book contributions, and has been shortlisted for the prestigious Miles Moreland Foundation Scholarship awarded to African writers.