Diana Rayes (She/Her) is a PhD Candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also holds a Master of Health Science degree from Johns Hopkins, specializing in global mental health and humanitarian assistance. Her research interests encompass the impact of conflict and displacement on refugee and migrant mental health and integration in host country contexts, particularly in high-income settings. Most recently, she was a Pulitzer Center Fellow, researching the policy implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on refugee arrivals in Turkey. She also is a recipient of the Fulbright  fellowship, where she spent time in Berlin exploring cultural and faith-based coping mechanisms among Arabic-speaking refugees.

Diana also chairs the Syria Public Health Network, where she leads research and policy dissemination on public health trends resulting from the Syrian crisis. She has previous affiliations with organizations such as the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, the World Health Organization, the Syrian American Medical Society, and the Lancet Commission on Syria, concentrating on public health trends and refugee issues in the Middle East region. Currently, she consults for UNICEF's Global Mental Health team to support the scale-up of policies and advocacy to support the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing among children and adolescents worldwide.