Country Experience: Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, Zimbabwe.
Mary is a specialist in public health promotion and community engagement. She has more than 20 years of professional public health promotion and community development experience, including over 10 years working in low-income countries and fragile states. Her experience includes multiple categories of humanitarian crisis and response, protracted disasters, post emergency planning and long-term development.
Mary has worked for several Africa-focused organisations, concentrating on WASH and water governance. She has researched the area of safe water, hygiene and diarrhoea, and helped develop manuals on household water treatment based on field trials in Kenya, and worked towards the roll out of household water treatment solution in Kenya.
Mary co-authored a study on the impact of a school-based safe water and hygiene program on knowledge and practices of students and their parents in Nyanza province (Epidemiology andInfection Journal: 2007), and a study on diarrhoea prevention in Kenya schools using a simple safe water and hygiene intervention (America Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: 2007).
Mary received a Master’s degree in Community Health and Development from Great lakes University of Kisumu (GLUK), for her thesis on Behaviour Changes Among School Pupils: Adoption of Safe Water Systems and Hand washing Practises Among School Going Children in Western Kenya.