Diana Rayes (She/Her) is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs (STIA) Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research interest are in global mental health, with a particular emphasis on refugee and migrant mental health and the integration challenges these populations face in high-income countries. Her work, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, has been published in leading journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Migration and Health, and Conflict and Health, as well as by think tanks like Newlines Institute and the Migration Policy Institute.

In addition to her academic work, Diana chairs the Syria Public Health Network, where she leads research and policy dissemination on public health trends resulting from the Syrian crisis. Her previous affiliations include the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, the World Health Organization, the Syrian American Medical Society, and the Lancet Commission on Syria, where she focused on public health and refugee issues in the Middle East. Currently, she consults for UNICEF's Mental Health Leadership team, supporting the global scale-up of policies and advocacy initiatives to enhance the mental health and psychosocial well-being of children and adolescents worldwide.

Diana earned her B.S. in Psychology from Arizona State University and both her M.H.S. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was a Fulbright fellow in Berlin, Germany and was recognized as a Middle Eastern and North African American National Security & Foreign Policy Next Generation Leader by New America.