ORCID ID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0610-0999

Najam is currently working as Research Fellow as part of the team with the All-island Vaccine Research and Training Alliance (AIVRT), a 3.5M Euro programme funded by the HEA North-South Research Programme. Her research will explore interventions to increase vaccine acceptance across the Ireland and internationally, and she works on the behavioural science work package with two PhD researchers (one at QUB, one in University College Cork), and several academics including Dr Gillian Shorter (co-Lead) and Dr Emma Berry at QUB, Dr Laura Sahm (co-Lead), Dr Aoife Fleming, Dr Anne Moore at University College Cork. This project aims to develop vaccines for anti-microbial resistance, and build networks and research to strengthen community-based services for anti-microbial resistance, and capacity for adoption through interaction and understanding of diversified opinions and practices. The consortium is led by Siobhan McClean at University College Dublin and Miguel Valvano at QUB.

She has been involved in teaching, research, and community engagement for the last 15 years. As a researcher she gained rich experience in assessment and interventions for different age groups, ethnicities, gender, physical illness, mental health issues, and vulnerable populations. She has completed her PhD in Psychology from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2022. During her PhD research, she modified and adapted Gratitude Interventions for addressing the academic stress among adolescents. Before that, she completed her Masters training for Higher Education from University of Texas at Austin, USA and received her master's degree in Behavioural Sciences from Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan.

Her diverse educational and cultural experience helped in understanding the human behaviour in sociocultural context. Over the time she has developed interest in exploring human potentials, motivation, and knowledge sharing in sociocultural diversity.

Her research interests are positive psychology, adolescent mental health, sociocultural anthropology, and public health with ultimate goal to improve wellbeing and quality of life. As a member of AIVRT, she is excited and ready to learn from the interdisciplinary team experts from biological and social sciences. When she is not working, she enjoys travelling and gardening.