HoM President & CEO Rebecca Mayors brings deep experience and a commitment to addressing health equity issues globally. Her career spans 20 years with various non-profits strengthening the provision of healthcare, water and sanitation, and social support services working with teams on program design and evaluation in more than 40 countries. Her skills span strategic planning, field technical support, partnership management, policy change, and coalition building.

At HoM, Ms.Mayors leads a team of professionals, who deliver an annual average of $800 million worth of food supplies and medical supplies to clinics, hospitals, and ministries of health globally. As a 50-year-old faith-inspired organization, HoM is a leader in program development across 80 countries. Rebecca Mayor’s direction has driven sustainable programming that strengthens local health systems and puts community members at the center of healthcare planning. Inspired by the organization’s commitment to Catholic Social Teaching, she continues strengthening HoM’s commitment to dignity, subsidiarity, and solidarity with communities facing inequities.

Prior to 2014, Mayors spent most of her career supporting maternal and child programs at Queen Mothers Mission, eventually becoming lead on the Newborn & Child Survival Campaign to address policy and program priorities in partnership with other leading organizations working to reduce child mortality. While at Queen Mothers she helped launch the Frontline Health Workers Coalition as the founding chair, which continues to advocate for support of Frontline Health Workers who serve to deliver basic health care around the world.

She has lived and worked in Egypt, India, and Thailand. She studied at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica between her undergraduate degree at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and her graduate work in public health at the University of Michigan. In 2023, she was awarded a Doctor of Laws honorary degree from Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, in recognition of her advocacy in global health, along with the faith-inspired perspective she brings to the field.