An individual’s health is one’s basic need and right as it has can have different impact- both positively or negatively – not only to the individual but across the multi-level of society’s systems which can span from their respective families to the nation’s health and socioeconomic well-being. Mere, as fondly known by her colleagues, is a Pacific Islander who is passionate about ensuring that people surrounded by the vast blue Pacific Ocean are not left behind in the fight to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases.

Expertise: NTDs, Pacific Public Health