Mary Anne Mercer, DrPH, MPH, is a public health practitioner specializing in the delivery of maternal and child health services in developing countries, with a special interest in the effect of globalization on health. Dr. Mercer began her international work in rural Nepal, and since then has provided technical support to a number of health programs in Asia and Africa. Between 1989 and 1994 she directed a technical support program at Johns Hopkins University for NGOs implementing programs for HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa, and subsequently was deputy director of the Johns Hopkins-based PVO Child Survival Support Program. She directed Health Alliance International programs in Timor-Leste for maternal/newborn health from 1999 to 2011. She is co-editor of a 2004 book Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health. Her recent book, Beyond the Next Village, is her memoir of a year in rural Nepal as a nurse practitioner traveling with a mobile team to provide public health and clinical services. She is a Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Departments of Global Health and Health Services at the University of Washington.