Author - Robert Marten

Robert Marten is currently a part-time master's of public health (MPH) student at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, and blogs on this site about global health policy.

He has worked in Southeast Asia with Volunteers-in-Asia, SwissContact, USAID, the Vietnam Education Foundation, CARE, the Vietnamese government and the Netherlands Medical Committee, as well as served as manager for a United Nations Volunteers (UNV) project working with people living with HIV/AIDS in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Robert has also interned with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Nairobi, Kenya and Monrovia, Liberia, worked as a researcher at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, Germany, and worked with German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Lusaka, Zambia. Most recently he has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Robert holds a BA (Honours History and Political Science) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a master's of public policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany.