Amalia Voskanyan is the Co-Director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, and the Director of International Relations in the Division of Disaster Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC. She has over 20 years’ experience building global partnerships in the areas of disaster risk reduction and resiliency, with specific expertise in solution cultivation and program development. Ms. Voskanyan has taken a leadership role in developing centers of excellence in Disaster Medicine around the world and has worked in a leadership capacity providing oversight and guidance for several non-governmental organizations on humanitarian programs. She has also served as a consultant to the White House Medical Unit for three administrations.

Ms. Voskanyan has worked extensively in post-earthquake Haiti leading humanitarian programs that provide medical and psychosocial care, and education. She has published more than fifteen peer-reviewed journal articles and two textbook chapters. Through her leadership, the BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, the oldest and largest in the United States, has graduated over 140 fellows from the United States and over 30 countries around the world.

Ms. Voskanyan received the American International Health Alliance Excellence in Nursing Administration award and has been an invited speaker at numerous global healthcare conferences. She has served on numerous organizing and scientific committees for large international conferences, including being selected by the Abu Dhabi Department of Health as Chair of the Organizing Committee for the Abu Dhabi International Disaster Medicine conference, and being named Chair of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference on Humanitarian Crises at Harvard Medical School. In 2023, Ms. Voskanyan was named a Disaster Medicine “Innovator and Influencer” by the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine and was a featured speaker at their international congress. In 2024, Ms. Voskanyan was appointed as Member of the Organizing Committee for the 2nd Kuwait Emergency Medicine Conference, and as Member of the Organizing Committee, World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams International Congress in Abu Dhabi. In 2026, Ms. Voskanyan was appointed to the organizing committee for the inaugural Conference on Disaster Medicine by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in the Bahamas and organized and delivered a 2-day workshop on Crisis Leadership for Healthcare Leaders at the 3^rd CRA Annual Conference on Disaster and Emergency Management in Bangkok Thailand.