Jamilah trained as a medical doctor in Global Health and Tropical Medicine, holds a teaching degree, and recently completed her master’s in international health.

After her post-graduate training in the Netherlands, she worked with different international organizations in low-resource settings, including Nigeria, Mali, Thailand, and Greece. In these roles she combined clinical work with project development and coordination, research, advocacy, and teaching.

Jamilah is particularly passionate about the sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugees and asylum seekers as well as mental health in humanitarian contexts.

Publications

• Simone Goosen, Petra J de Jong, Jamilah Sherally. Perinatal mortality among asylum seekers in the Netherlands seven times higher than in Dutch women. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2020;164:D5413
• Teunissen E, Sherally J, van den Muijsenbergh M, Dowrick C, van Weel-Baumgarten E, van Weel C. Mental health problems of undocumented migrants (UMs) in the Netherlands: a qualitative exploration of help-seeking behaviour and experiences with primary care. BMJ Open. 2014;4(11):e005738. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005738.
• Ingrosso, Loredana, Schmidt, Tanja, Sherally, Jamilah, Dembech, Matteo, Montes, Sara Barragan, Machado, Rita Sa, Annunziata, Giuseppe, Rezza, Giovanni, & Severoni, Santino. (2015). A desk review on institutional and non-institutional organizations active in the field of migrant’s health in the WHO European Region. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 51(4), 313-320. https://dx.doi.org/10.4415/ANN_15_04_11