With over 15 years of international residency, Mary Linehan shares her experience building self-sustainable local communities. She and Cougar discuss this “capacity building” and highlight the importance of leaving people better than we found them. Additionally, she will share her thoughts on public health’s role in Covid. Was society positively or negatively affected by public health, and did Covid change public health’s trajectory?

Guest Bio

Mary Linehan is a senior technical advisor of infectious diseases at IMA World Health and has also overseen global projects with USAID. She has over 20 years of international work experience in program management, technical assistance, and research for maternal and child health; nutrition; and infectious diseases, including 15 years of residence in the Philippines, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, and Vietnam. In the last few years, Linehan has engaged in a collaboration with researchers at BYU to document the achievements of IMA World Health's nutrition programs.

Recorded, Edited & Produced by Christy Gonzalez, Harper Xinyu Zhang, Kailey Hopkins, and Tanya Gale