麻豆国产

Maryann Watkins-Delea, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Senior Associate Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program

Maryann Delea has 15 years of experience in research and international public health programming and worked with the South Sudan Guinea Worm Eradication Program from 2011 through 2013. Her areas of expertise include managing programs and providing technical support, designing interventions and research projects, developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and conducting epidemiological investigations to identify and interrupt environmental drivers of infectious disease transmission. She has developed, implemented, and evaluated programs and projects related to water, sanitation, and hygiene, and emerging, reemerging, and neglected tropical diseases in 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Central America. Watkins-Delea received her Ph.D. in infectious and tropical diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a master of public health in global environmental health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and a bachelor of arts in psychology from Southern Methodist University.