Academy for Educational Development

AED WELCOMES MARY LYN FIELD-NGUER,
EXPERT IN INTERNATIONAL HIV/AIDS PROGRAMS

Washington, D.C., July 14, 2009 —Mary Lyn Field-Nguer recently joined the AED Center on AIDS & Community Health as vice president, deputy director of the Center, and director for international AIDS Programs.

Field-Nguer comes to AED with 35 years of experience in international and domestic health programs. Most recently, she served as director of HIV and AIDS Programs for John Snow, Inc./Washington, where she also acted as the pediatric HIV adviser to the BASICS Project, principal investigator of a CDC-funded study on Health Care Worker Safety in Tanzania, and co-chaired  the HIV Implementers’ Group, hosted by the Global Health Council.

“Field-Nguer will enhance AED’s continued mission to reduce the spread of HIV and provide leadership in efforts to provide care and treatment for those affected by HIV/AIDS,” said Frank Beadle de Palomo, senior vice president and director of the AED Center on AIDS & Community Health.

For the last 18 years, Field-Nguer has been a program manager and technical adviser for global HIV/AIDS programs, contributing to the design, implementation and evaluation of HIV prevention, care and treatment services, and strategic planning, programming and training for HIV programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has been an invited participant for WHO and UNICEF consultations on HIV strategic approaches, pediatric AIDS, antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up and training, PEPFAR evaluation, and competency guideline development.

In addition, Field-Nguer was the Global HIV/AIDS specialist at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and worked as a policy communications specialist at the International Center for Research on Women. She has also served an assistant professor in the graduate nurse practitioner program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ABOUT AED: AED is a nonprofit organization working globally to improve education, health, social and economic development—the foundation of thriving societies. Focusing on the underserved, AED's worldwide staff of 2,000 implements more than 300 programs serving people in all 50 U.S. states and more than 150 countries.  www.aed.org.

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