Rose Mary Romano
Senior Vice President, Washington, D.C.
Rose Mary Romano is an internationally recognized expert on social marketing, health and development communications. Prior to joining Fenton she was a senior communication specialist for the Academy for Educational Development in Washington D.C. and Pretoria, South Africa where she was senior communication manager for a C-Change, a multi-million dollar U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) global communication contract.
Romano’s background includes designing and implementing health communication and behavior change programs on HIV, family planning and malaria in Kenya, Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia. She has managed and provided technical oversight for a range of media projects including: the African Broadcast Media Partnership’s multi-country media campaign on HIV; an MTV collaboration to produce a multi-country television drama series on HIV prevention, and Half the Sky, a communication program on women’s empowerment. She has advised African government officials (in Kenya, Namibia, and Swaziland) on health communication programs and served as advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on HIV prevention in Botswana.
Her background also include multiple leadership positions for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service where her responsibilities included managing communication and public affairs activities for maternal and child health, AIDS, national vaccine program, community and migrant health care, primary care, and other programs providing health services for underserved populations. Romano also designed and managed communication program for Healthy Start, a White House initiative to reduce infant mortality and managed multi-million dollar advertising campaign and coordinated partnerships with private industry and advocacy groups. She holds a master’s degree in community health education from New York University.
