Aula is the project lead for Greece for the Syrian American Medical Society Global Response. They provide primary healthcare to refugees in Northern Greece, such as pediatric and maternal health, with the Greek authorities and INGOs. With the Syrian American Medical Society, she teaches Syrian healthcare workers in Turkey on topics related to infectious diseases. She is on the committee for

the Global Health Curriculum Group which aims to encourage the including of global health competencies in post graduate training curricula and is on the Syria Public Health Network’s steering committee. She is a full time clinician specializing in infectious diseases and doing research on TB in London.

“It was a natural process. Since I was a medical student, I was always interested in working with vulnerable communities. During medical school, I spent my elective working near the Thai-Burmese border and in refugee camps in Lebanon which showed me first hand the gaps in healthcare and how vulnerable people could be, particularly those who have been forced from their homes. I have been driven by a sense of injustice at their plight and that entitlement to healthcare should be a given to everyone.”