Marnie Rickards

Biography

Marnie Rickards is the Operations Director for DAK Foundation and a Director of DAK International Network, which jointly support practical solutions for healthcare delivery in low resource settings.

Marnie oversees the Biomedical and Equipment programs, partnering with locally embedded health networks across Asia and Africa to help increase their efficiency and quality of service.

She has a specific interest in heallth prograsm addessing:
• obstetric ultrasound task-sharing
• oxygen ecosystem strengthening
• safe anaesthesia programs and inhalation gas supply chain
• emergency medicine

DAK Foundation also supports programs in high-volume SICS cataract surgeries, family planning using LARCs and other community and primary health inititiaves which focus on capacity utilisation.

Marnie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University and serves on the Board of Partners for Equity (Australia) as well as the Board of Advisors for the Gould Family Foundation (USA).