Mary Anne Mercer DrPH, MPH

Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH, MPH, is a public health practitioner specializing in the delivery of maternal and child health services in developing countries, with a special interest in the effect of globalization on health. Dr. Mercer began her international work in rural Nepal, and since then has provided technical support to a number of health programs in Asia and Africa. Between 1989 and 1994 she directed a technical support program at Johns Hopkins University for NGOs implementing programs for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa and subsequently was deputy director of the Johns Hopkins-based PVO Child Survival Support Program. She is co-editor of the 2004 book Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health.

Dr. Mercer is currently Senior MCH Advisor at Health Alliance International, where she supports HAI programs in Timor-Leste for maternal/newborn care and child spacing. She is also a Senior Lecturer Emerita in the Departments of Global Health and Health Services at the University of Washington.