Dr. Mari Dumbaugh (she/her/hers) is a global health social scientist specializing in maternal, child, sexual and reproductive health and health behavior change in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Dumbaugh holds a Master's of Science in International Child Health from University College London and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute/University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Gender, reproductive justice, legacies of colonial histories of oppression, social determinants of health and health equity play strongly into all of her work as a global health researcher and educator.

Most of Dr. Dumbaugh’s work occurs in French-speaking African contexts including Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Senegal. Dr. Dumbaugh completed her doctoral work in South Kivu Province, eastern DRC where 20+ years of civil conflict, humanitarian emergencies and ongoing economic and political uncertainty create serious health challenges especially for women. Her mixed-methods doctoral research in DRC looked at fertility, contraceptive use and reproductive health through a health social science lens with particular emphasis on qualitative and ethnographic approaches to field work.