Amal is social and lifecourse epidemiologist with a keen interest in methodology (especially longitudinal methods), specialising in health inequalities and noncommunicable disease epidemiology. His strengths lie in observational epidemiology and mixed methods, teaching (basic and advanced epidemiology and biostatistics, methods for health inequalities research and social medicine), project management and supervision of research projects (specifically MSc dissertations and PhD projects). He is also interested in mental health, and specifically in comorbidity between mental and physical health and associated inequalities, especially those related to marginalised and minority groups (multiple minority identities - expanding on intersectionality, minority stress and cultural relational theories).

Amal has extensive teaching experience in both undergraduate and graduate degree programmes at multiple universities.