Mah-Sere Keita

Ms. Mah-Sere Keita serves as Executive Director at Thrive Gulu; a trauma recovery organisation supporting survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency and refugees from South Sudan. 

Previously the Director of Programs for ASLM, she has 15+ years of experience managing global health programs, particularly in the fields of public health workforce development and improving the diagnosis of infectious diseases in low-resource settings.

She has also held leadership positions at the Catholic Relief Services-Mali, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH).

Ms. Keita holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in pre-medicine biology from Boston College.