President

Mary M. Kincaid is President at Iris Group and a gender specialist and health policy advisor, with thirty years of experience in international development. In addition to managing the firm, Mary provides strategy and program design, capacity building and research services on gender integration and social inclusion across multiple sectors, as well as sector-specific services in health. She is known for a practical, hands-on approach to gender integration in projects, strategies and policies, relying on the evidence about gender and sector outcomes, a sharp focus on what is feasible and cost-effective, and a deep knowledge of gender in multiple sectors and regions.

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Mary currently supports GESI integration across the research streams of the URBAN WASH project. She also is helping establish and train a network of Nepalese organizations to provide workplace-based women’s health (MHH-SRH) consultancy services to the business community in Kathmandu, under the WASHPaLS 2 project. Prior to founding Iris Group in 2011, Mary served as a senior policy advisor on large global health policy projects for over twenty years, working throughout Latin America and Africa to design and implement country and regional programs as well as leading gender integration, research, and capacity building activities.

 

Mary earned a Doctorate in Public Health and a Master’s degree in Economics, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Davidson College.