Adara Development is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Kimber Haddix McKay to its USA Board of Directors. Dr Haddix McKay joins a distinguished group of directors and trustees globally, whose experience spans the business, not-for-profit and philanthropic worlds.
Dr Haddix McKay brings deep institutional knowledge and decades of expertise in global health, anthropological demography, community-based participatory research, and programme planning and evaluation, with a focus on medical anthropology.
She has a long history with Adara, first joining in 1998 as a volunteer. Over almost 27 years, Dr Haddix McKay held a range of senior and leadership roles with Adara including Nepal Country Manager, Research Manager, Director of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, and most recently Senior Advisor – Innovation and Best Practice. In each role, she played a critical part in ensuring that Adara’s programmes were grounded in data, innovation, and global best practice.
Currently, Dr Haddix McKay is Professor and Chair of the School of Public and Community Health Sciences at the University of Montana in the USA. She teaches global health courses and advises students in the Bachelor of Science, Master of Public Health and PhD programmes in Public Health. She also recently Chaired the University’s Faculty Senate and in 2022-23 served as interim Vice Provost. Dr Haddix McKay has a BA, an MA and a PhD in Anthropology, as well as two years of post-doctoral training in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. She specialises in global health, anthropological demography, community-based participatory research, and programme planning and evaluation. Her focus in the last decade has been on medical anthropology.
“I’m delighted to welcome Dr Kimber Haddix McKay to the board of Adara Development (USA),” said Audette Exel AO, Adara’s Founder and Chair. “Kimber has been an integral part of Adara’s journey from the very beginning. Her profound expertise and long-standing connection to our work makes her an invaluable addition to our board. Kimber brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will be invaluable to Adara as we expand our impact and drive our work forward.”
“I’m honoured to join the board and continue to contribute to Adara’s continued mission of helping people living in some of the world’s most remote places,” said Dr Haddix McKay. “Having worked with Adara since its infancy, I am proud to have been a part of this important work.”
The Adara Group has a 27-year history and bridges the worlds of business and international development. Adara has deep expertise in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Remote Community Development. It delivers service through centres of excellence in Uganda and Nepal, and it deepens impact through its networks, its knowledge sharing and its work inspiring people to use their business skills for purpose.
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