Mary-Ann ETIEBET
Associate Vice President for Health Equity & Partnerships, MSD
Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet is a global health innovator with over two decades of experience working across public and private sectors to improve health care outcomes for underserved populations. She joined MSD in 2016, and now serves as the Associate Vice President of Health Equity & Partnerships, successfully building a new team responsible for the development and execution of the company’s first enterprise-wide health equity strategy, and now working to increase access to health and the company’s innovative portfolio of medicines and vaccines in low and middle income countries. She previously served as Lead of the MSD for Mothers global health initiative that has increased access to quality maternal health care for more than 20M women in over 65 countries.
Dr. Etiebet joined MSD from Premier Inc, where she was a Principal Consultant in the Population Health Management team. Previously, she served as Director of Ambulatory Care Strategies for New York City Health and Hospital. Her work in global health includes serving as the Senior Technical Advisor of the Institute of Human Virology-Nigeria, a PEPFAR implementing partner, while she was Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Etiebet holds an MD and MBA from Yale University. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell and fellowship in Infectious Diseases Hospital System at New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, becoming Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She is a member of the Center for Global Development Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees of Vital Strategies, and the Advisory Committee for the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale University. She has also served on the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Board and the Investors Group of the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility.