Dr. Mahmood is currently Professor and Executive Director of the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University in Malaysia. She was the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Public Health during the Covid 19 pandemic. She currently co-chairs the World Economic Forum (WEF) Steering Committee on Climate and Health and in 2025 was appointed as a member of the WEF Global Future Council for Clean Air . She is a strong advocate of planetary health and sustainability and actively advises on Environment, Social and Governance in the advisory and board roles she holds. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards including the most prestigious Malaysian Merdeka Award in 2015 and the ASEAN Prize in 2019, for her contribution to peace, community development and humanitarian work. She also received the inaugural Isa Award for Humanity in 2013 from the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Gandhi- King-Ikeda Award for community development and peace building from Morehouse College, USA.  More recently, she was awarded the Wu Lien-Teh Award for Leadership in Public Health 2023. Dr Mahmood graduated as a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the National University of Malaysia, has a Masters in Obstetrics and   Gynecology from the same university and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists United Kingdom. She also completed executive education at the International Management and Development Centre, IMD Lausanne and University California Berkeley Law. She is also the founder of MERCY Malaysia, a leading southern-based international humanitarian organisation.​