and Senior Scientific Advisor
Mercy Guech is a Public Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Senior Scientific Advisor with over 15 years of experience in clinical, biomedical, and large-scale population-based research. She provides specialized scientific, technical, operational and laboratory oversight monitoring and management support to basic and clinical research laboratories globally but most especially in resource-limited countries.
She currently leads, and oversees scientific, technical, and operational laboratory-related activities and processes including basic and clinical laboratory set-up, site monitoring of biological sample collection, processing, testing, storage, management, and documentation at all stages of biomedical and clinical research conducted globally. She is passionate about building, strengthening and sustaining country-level research capacity through collaboration and continuous monitoring to ensure that research data generated are of high quality, reliable and reproducible.
From 2010 to 2016, she served as Senior Technical Specialist with The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program at ICF, managing, overseeing, coordinating, and supervising the implementation of key field and laboratory-related activities in large, multi-center, population-based household surveys. Contributed to the design and/or implementation of surveys in about 20 countries around the world.
She has extensive experience working with International Organizations such as WHO, UNICEF, UN, Gates Foundation, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), US Agencies such as NIH, USAID, and CDC. Most importantly, she has experience building, nurturing, and maintaining respectful collaborations and working with leadership teams in these organizations and countries.
She holds a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and a Master of Science in Biotechnology at the University Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim respectively. She is also a Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
