Dr. Heather Marlow is a Senior Youth and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Specialist at ICRW. She has over fifteen years of experience in global reproductive health monitoring, evaluation and research.  She previously worked at John’s Hopkins University Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health; The Challenge Initiative (TCI), in monitoring, evaluation and research; at Mathematica Policy Research in international program evaluation; and at Ipas to improve the monitoring, evaluation and research of Ipas’ community-based reproductive health work in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Marlow was a Fulbright Scholar in Honduras, worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in monitoring and evaluation for the Global AIDS program, and as the regional director for South America for Amigos de las Americas.  She has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and has worked on HIV, family planning and safe-abortion services.