09/07/2017
Great opportunity to hear from an alumna working in development. Don't miss Maia during her campus visit in November.
The Wilson Center would like to bring the following to your attention. Maia Olsen ’11 (Anthropology and Global Development Studies), currently program manager of non-communicable diseases at Partners in Health, will be visiting campus to participate in our alumni speaker series, Diverse Paths of Innovation and Leadership, on November 2nd. The presentation will take place in Harris Cinema at 2pm. This talk is open to the public. Below, please find a brief bio with contact information.
Please share this with faculty and students in your department who might be interested.
Also note that most of our visitors are available for additional activities while on campus. If you have interest in arranging a meeting, looking into class visits, or arranging a group event, Wilson would be happy to help with any related expenses.
Maia Olsen’ 11
Maia Olsen graduated Grinnell College with a BA in Anthropology and Global Development Studies in 2011. She holds an MPH in Global Health from Boston University and has a background in non-profit program administration and resource development, with experience working with organizations in Grinnell, Boston, Washington, DC, and northern Cameroon. She is currently Program Manager of the non-communicable disease program at Partners In Health (PIH), a global health NGO that works with local government officials and the world's leading medical and academic institutions to build capacity and strengthen health systems in some of the poorest settings of the world. In this role, she provides program management and fundraising support to PIH's programs across ten countries, collaborates with clinicians and researchers to provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health looking to scale up integrated chronic care services in low-income countries, and helps lead advocacy and communications efforts promoting country-led solutions and increased funding to better address noncommunicable diseases in settings of extreme poverty. In addition to her work at PIH, she has been volunteering with Global Oncology, Inc (GO) since 2013, where she led a project developing first-of-its-kind patient education materials for low-literate populations with cancer in sub-Saharan Africa and has assisted with a GO partnership in Malawi and an expert lecture series. She was named a 2013 Summer Graduate Fellow at the BU Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, publishing a policy paper on “Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for New Paradigms in Global Health” as a result of this research in December 2015.
NCD Synergies is a project of Partners In Health providing support to policymakers in low income countries for addressing NCDs and injuries of the poorest.
