The short version

Day job: international malnutrition policy at GAIN. Erstwhile physician. Aspiring polymath. Brit about town.

The medium version

Dr Layla McCay is working her way through professions beginning with the letter P: physician, pathologist, psychiatrist, and currently policy wonk. Her focus is public health and her aspiration is polymath. She was recently named Britain's 'top' professional woman under 35. Then moved to Washington DC.

When not at work, Layla considers herself a science/literature/geography nerd, attends random events from the glamorous to the quirky, explores the world (over 50 countries so far, and counting), and tweets a lot.

And the longer version

Dr Layla McCay has worked as Clinical Advisor to the World Health Organization in Geneva, and to the British Government. She has been Assistant Medical Director for Bupa, and Director for Basic Needs (international mental health NGO). She's conducted health services research at Glasgow, Osaka, Harvard, John Hopkins School of Public Health, LSE and LSHTM, and has published in journals including The Lancet and BMJ.

Layla is currently Senior Manager for Policy and Advocacy at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

All blogs express Layla's personal (and often random) thoughts and opinions and not those of the organizations to which she is or has been affiliated, unless otherwise specified.

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