Jemilah binti Mahmood is a Malaysian physician. She has served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin on Public Health since March 2020 and Under Secretary General for Partnerships in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since January 2016. Before joining the IFRC, she served as Chief of the Secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit at the United Nations in New York and Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA in 2011, President of the (Mercy Malaysia) from its foundation in June 1999 to a decade later in 2009. Mercy Malaysia is a medical charity she founded in June 1999, inspired by the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). In 2008, she was one of the 16 members appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the