Raudah Mohd Yunus is a lecturer in public health, researcher, social activist, and writer. She teaches family health, population dynamics, health of the marginalized, and global health at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA.

Her research on older adults, the urban poor, and human trafficking kindled her interest in the care and protection of vulnerable groups and motivated her to co-found an NGO called READ Malaysia (Relief, Education & Development), which promotes the welfare and education of urban poor children, including refugees. Raudah has published two books: Displaced and Forgotten: Memoirs of Refugees (2017) and Tales of Mothers (2015), a book on motherhood and special needs children that was awarded second prize for best English book (non-fiction category) by the Malaysian Readers’ Choice Award in 2017.