Research interests
Health systems in fragile and conflict affected settings, cancer care, health system integration, refugee care access, implementation research
Biography
Mary Qiu is a public health practitioner with a decade of experience working in global health research, implementation, and program management. Mary completed her MSPH in 2016 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of International health, with a concentration in health systems.
She has worked on research coordination and implementation activities, including the management of a USAID-funded evaluation of the PEPFAR geographic prioritization process on how transitions in PEPFAR funding priorities affected service delivery at the facility-level in Kenya and Uganda. She also led the implementation of four RCTs across two UNHCR refugee camps in Western Tanzania to evaluate novel health, education, and violence prevention programs developed by the International Rescue Committee.
Prior to beginning her PhD, Mary was a Senior Program Manager at Evidence Action where she led the development of new programming around HPV vaccination and malaria in school-age children. She also managed the implementation and scale-up of a dual HIV/syphilis testing program in Zambia, providing global backstop support to the country team to successfully train over 2000 health facilities over a single year.
Mary is currently completing her PhD, focusing on how Syrian women with breast cancer are navigating evolving health systems and geopolitical power borders to access care in a post-war setting. She continues to act as a consultant in the global health space, working with the World Health Organization and GRID Impact on a range of health systems and women’s financial inclusion initiatives.
Selected research publications
The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp: A cluster randomised controlled trial – Journal: PLoS Medicine – Published: 4th October 2021
Exploring perceived effects from loss of PEPFAR support for outreach in Kenya and Uganda – Journal: Globalization and Health – Published: 17th July 2021
Effects of transition on HIV and non-HIV services and health systems in Kenya: a mixed methods evaluation of donor transition – Journal: BMC Health Services Research – Published: 13th May 2021
The differential impacts of PEPFAR transition on private for-profit, private not-for-profit and publicly owned health facilities in Uganda – Journal: Health Policy and Planning – Published: 1st March 2020
Understanding the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals for health policy and systems research: Results of a research priority setting exercise – Journal: Globalization and Health – Published: 9th January 2020
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