Emory University Suspends Palestinian Medical Student Umaymah Mohammad for Speaking Out in Support of Palestine During Media Interview
Layla Amar | 12 February 2025 | Atlanta Community Press Collective
In November 2024, Emory University School of Medicine suspended Mohammad Umaymah Mohammad for her activism around Palestine as she refused to remain silent during the ongoing genocide of her people. On Feb. 11, 2025, the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-GA), along with Emory students and faculty, held a press conference for Mohammed, demanding that the university drop the conduct violation charges against her.
During the press conference, Dr. Anna Mullany, a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University, said, “The world needs doctors like Umaymah Mohammad, those willing to have bigger and honest conversations about health and society. Doctors who understand that health is not merely the absence of disease and suffering but that health and health inequities are social, that our individual and collective health, or lack thereof, are deeply connected to history and the political, social, and economic structures of society.”…