Ms. Meg Bertram Robins

MERL Consultant, Women’s Health

Meg Bertram Robins is GSF’s MERL Consultant, based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. With more than 15 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL), she specialises in strengthening data quality and translating complex, multi-country data into actionable evidence for programme improvement. Her work spans cervical cancer prevention, breast cancer, safe surgery and maternal health programmes in low- and middle-income countries, including GSF’s obstetric surgical care initiatives in Kenya, Nepal and Nigeria.

Before joining GSF, Meg spent nine years at Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, most recently serving as Senior MERL Advisor. She led multi-country MERL for the Unitaid-funded SUCCESS project, advancing secondary prevention of cervical cancer across Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guatemala and the Philippines. She also contributed to Jhpiego’s Safe Surgery portfolio, supporting obstetric surgical quality improvement in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya.

Earlier in her career, Meg was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute, where she served as a Public Health Analyst and led the mid-term evaluation of Botswana’s National Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme.

Meg holds an MPH in Global Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, an Executive Certificate in Innovation and Human-Centered Design from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and a BS in Psychology from Syracuse University.