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Mariel supports effective project administration within IGHD, contributing to the logistical planning and smooth operation of active research initiatives. She is currently involved in the ReBUILD for Resilience research consortium, the UNHCR Health System Resilience, Enhancement and Refugee Responses Project, and the HIMM Project (Co-designing Health Innovations to reach Mobile Men with Co-Morbidities in Uganda and Zambia). In addition to her project roles, she works in liaison with the IGHD Doctoral Programme and the QMU Graduate School, serving as a point of contact for all doctoral students studying with the Institute, as well as for prospective IGHD doctoral candidates and IGHD staff serving as doctoral supervisors.

Before joining IGHD in 2024, Mariel spent five years working in the youth charity sector in Canada and has been an active member of inclusion and advocacy networks in New Brunswick—including Special Olympics, Easterseals, and Best Buddies—since 2014.

She holds an MSc in Global Health Policy from the University of Edinburgh, where her dissertation examined barriers to equitable, culturally appropriate, and trauma-informed maternity care for Indigenous women, gender-diverse, and Two-Spirit individuals across Canada.

Through her work with the ReBUILD for Resilience consortium, Mariel has been involved in research dissemination on global health systems with a particular focus on equity, ethics, and inclusion in research practice. She recently presented the consortium’s study, “Resilience in Fragile Health Systems: Coping with COVID-19 in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, and Gaza,” at the 11th International Conference on Public Health (ICOPH) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health among disadvantaged populations, and she is particularly passionate about approaches that centre the perspectives of local researchers and communities in global health research and practice.