Dr Mary Anne Mercer representing NGO Constituency
Deputy Director of Health Alliance International and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington
Mary Anne Mercer is a public health practitioner with a doctoral degree in public health and over 30 years experience in implementing or supporting maternal and child health programs in developing countries. She spent two years leading a health team in rural Nepal in 1978-79 and then coordinated outpatient clinic services in a Cambodian refugee camp. She was a student and then faculty member at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health from 1980 to 1995. She has focused on improving the technical capacity of NGO health projects in developing countries since 1989 when she developed and directed a program at Johns Hopkins University to provide technical support for nine NGO projects for HIV/AIDS prevention in seven African countries. She later was deputy director of a similar program that supported USAID-funded child survival projects.
In 1995 Dr. Mercer began work with Health Alliance International in Seattle Washington, where she is now Deputy Director, and at the same time joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Public Health. When the Department of Global Health was founded in 2007 she joined that faculty as a Senior Lecturer, where she continues to advise students and teach. She provided technical support to HAI’s maternal/newborn care and HIV/AIDS prevention projects in Mozambique for several years. Since 1999 she has also been the Director of Timor-Leste Operations at HAI, where she oversees programs for maternal and newborn care and child spacing.