Mary Mahy leads the epidemiology team at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) where she oversees the production and analysis of global data on the HIV epidemic, including supporting countries to produce annual HIV estimates. Mary also co-facilitates the HIV pediatrics estimates reference group that is linked to the UNAIDS Reference Group on Estimates, Modeling and Projections. Mary is an author on over 30 journal articles on HIV related topics, with a special focus on vertical HIV transmission and estimating child and adolescent HIV.
Prior to moving to UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva, Mary was the UNAIDS strategic information adviser in Namibia where she supported the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services to use data to strengthen the HIV response. Before joining UNAIDS Mary was responsible for global monitoring and evaluation of HIV at UNICEF headquarters in New York. She also worked as a research analyst for the Demographic and Health Surveys at Macro International. Mary is a demographer and received her doctorate in population dynamics from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her dissertation research focused on child mortality and HIV in Zimbabwe.
