Maria Jose Pastor is a public health professional with over five years of experience working with public and private sector organizations to co-design sustainable solutions with local agents to deliver lasting changes to improve health outcomes.
As a program officer at Results for Development, Ms. Pastor provides technical and program management assistance for Frontier Health Markets Engage (FHM Engage). Within this role, Ms. Pastor leads core work activities, working with local partners on aligning understanding and building sustainability and capacity in the market development approach (MDA) and expanding existing knowledge on regulation on family planning and maternal and child health to align MDA. Areas of expertise include qualitative research, health financing, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), collaborative learning and health systems strengthening .
Prior to joining R4D, Ms. Pastor was a program associate at International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) where she supported two projects. The first centered on post-EVD Ebola recovery response activities with a goal of supporting countries building back economic and social systems after the outbreak. The second identified priority behaviors and solution pathways for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and its partner countries to design new interventions related to energy, education, WASH and education. Before joining IBTCI, Ms. Pastor worked on her master’s thesis on commercial complementary foods among food insecure countries in Latin America.
Ms. Pastor holds a master’s degree in global health from ISGlobal-University of Barcelona and a BS in Kinesiology with a concentration in Public Health and a minor in Anthropology from The College of William and Mary. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish and speaks conversational French and Italian.
