Dr. Patricia Mechael been actively involved in the field of International Health for over 12 years with field experience in over 25 countries with a special focus on Africa. She has a Masters in International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene, and a PhD in Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she examined the role of mobile phones in relation to health in Egypt.
She is currently managing the integration of mobile phone and other mobile technologies to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals related to health for the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. She serves as a Research Affiliate at the Rutgers University Center for Mobile Communication Studies and has been invited to provide guidance on the strategic application of ICT, with a specific focus on mobile technologies for health, to CARE-USA, Catholic Relief Services, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Abt and Associates, the UK Partnership for Global Health, and UNFPA and the World Health Organization Global Observatory for eHealth. More recently she has extended her work in
mobile phones for social development to other sectors with MobileActive.org.
