Martha Brady, an associate working in the Population Council's Poverty, Gender, and Youth and HIV and AIDS programs, is a public health professional with broad technical expertise in reproductive health, technology introduction, adolescent health and development, and program evaluation. For the past two decades, Brady has participated in cross-cutting research and program initiatives in all regions of the developing world. Brady oversees the design and implementation of a diverse portfolio of research and program interventions related to transitions to adulthood. Her work focuses on girls’ and women’s protection strategies against HIV; programming on safe spaces, sports, and social asset building for adolescent girls; and the development of guidance for youth programming. Brady served as co-investigator of a multi-year intervention study─the Ishraq program─in upper Egypt, and is currently involved in the scaling-up strategy.

Brady is also directing an initiative aimed at building the platform for HIV prevention products for women and participates in the development of the Council’s microbicide-access strategy. She previously served as director of the Population Council’s Expanding Contraceptive Choice program, a global program aimed at facilitating access and introduction of reproductive health technologies into public- and private-sector markets and health systems worldwide. She has collaborated on numerous interagency working groups and consortiums and has worked extensively on female-initiated products. Brady serves in advisory capacity to the Female Health Foundation, Nike Foundation, Right to Play, and MedTex World. She also lectures at Smith College. Brady received her master's of science degree in public health and nutrition from Columbia University in 1986.