Meg Wirth

Biography

Meg Wirth is an expert in maternal and neonatal health innovation. She is the co-founder of Maternova and a S.E.VEN fellow and a Cartier Women's Initiative finalist. She has worked on women's health throughout her career in areas as diverse as starting a home visiting program for teen mothers in Appalachia to monitoring and evaluating a major Safe Motherhood initiative--funded by USAID and implemented by John Snow International's Mothercare project-- in Jakarta and South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Meg has also worked as a member of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Health Equity team and co-edited a major volume called Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action. She was a co-author of the UN Millennium Project’s final report on child and maternal health. She has a BA from Harvard University and an MPA in international development from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Research Interest

women's health,Safe Motherhood initiative,child and maternal health