Dr Layla McCay

Dr Layla McCay is a physician, global health and development specialist, innovator, socialite, livetweeter, international adventurer, prolific reader, occasional trampoliner, and enthusiastic blogger.

After medical school at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, Layla worked as a pathologist in Glasgow and a psychiatrist in London before being lured into policy and management. She's been an advisor to the World Health Organization in Geneva and the UK's Department of Health in Whitehall, Assistant Medical Director for Bupa, and Director of international mental health NGO Basic Needs. She's done medical research in Glasgow, London, Osaka, Boston, and Baltimore, and worked with shamans in Belize. Layla is currently Senior Manager for Global and National Advocacy at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Layla likes talking about global health and nutrition policy, mental health, health systems management, health communications, social media, or one of the 50ish countries she's visited. She is prone to punctuating the latter topic with photographs.

Having recently won an award for being the 'top' professional woman in Britain under the age of 35, Layla promptly moved to the US. She now considers Washington DC her adopted home. Sorry, London.

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