Mariana Bolivar
MQ Mental Health Research, UK
Biography
Mariana Bolivar brings 9 years of experience at the intersection between health, development and international cooperation, in modalities North-South, South-South, Multilateral and Public Private Partnerships. Before joining MQ, she co-led a pilot project in Colombia called MASUNO, addressing mental health inequalities and information overload in the pandemic through customer service technology. Completely powered by virtual volunteers, in less than a year MASUNO was consulted by 53,000 people and provided psychological support to 112, while also establishing collaborations with 17 organisations. It was recognised in the map of pandemic innovations of COVID Innovations, the Inter-American Development Bank and OPENIDEO. She previously worked at the BMJ (British Medical Journal Publishing Group) as Project Manager of a $13 million USD program funded by the US Government and implemented in Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, Jordan and Iraq. This project capitalized on digital learning technologies to improve clinical skills for detection and management of infectious diseases.