Mary Umoh, MSc

Mary Umoh is a public health advisor and program manager with more than 15 years of experience specializing in project management and planning. She has led the implementation of projects across sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children programming, health systems strengthening, nutrition, family planning, and gender integration.

Her technical areas include quality improvement, monitoring and evaluation, proposal writing, budgeting, partnership and collaboration, operational planning, stakeholder identification and analysis, and team management, developed through engagements with USAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DFID, CDC, the World Bank, the Global Fund, the Canadian International Development Agency, and UNICEF.

She serves as Senior Technical Advisor for Care and Support and as Safeguarding Focal Person at the Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme, where she has developed strategies addressing gender and gender based violence within service packages. Her earlier work includes coordinating advocacy strategy development on food based approaches to vitamin A deficiency and building the capacity of civil society partners across technical areas.

She holds an MSc in Social Work with a focus on community development from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology and a BSc in Health Education from Lagos State University.