Rola Hallam

[3] She was a registrar and education fellow at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where she specialised in Global Health.

[14][15] To address the issues she had found within the aid system, she established CanDo, a not-for-profit social enterprise and crowdfunding platform for local humanitarian organisations.

[16][3] She ran a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 called People's Convoy, which raised more than £250,000 to build a new children's hospital in Syria.

[6][17] The Convoy left the UK in December 2016, where it met members of the Independent Doctors Association at the Turkey-Syria border.

[24][25] In November 2017 she spoke at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, alongside Barack Obama and Naomi Campbell.

[26] She has advocated jointly with Physicians for Human Rights and is frequently featured in publications to discuss Syria.