Meg Wirth

Meg Wirth is the founder of Maternova and a S.E.VEN fellow. She founded Maternova in 2009. 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. She was a co-author of the UN Millennium Project’s final report on child and maternal health. An innovator at heart, over the last several years she co-developed the strategy for the first global health social venture capital fund with a focus on women's health in low-income countries. She has a BA from Harvard University and an MPA in international development from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. Emily Ellison Fallon is part of the Maternova team working on various projects and business development. Emily has studied social globalization and its impact on HIV/AIDS advocacy in Brazil and Mozambique. A particular area of interest of Emily's is in cultural competency in the introduction of health related technologies/practices. She graduated from Brown University with an Honors Degree in Development Studies.