Sherine Guirguis

Sherine Guirguis is a founder, director, and lead strategist at Common Thread. She brings over two decades of experience leading large-scale social and behavior change strategies for public health. She's helped rid the world of polio, and responded to major public health crises like the Indian Ocean Tsunami, West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, and Covid-19. Before founding Common Thread, she held senior social and behavior change positions at UNICEF in India, Maldives, and New York. She holds a M.Sc. in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a M.A. in international development and economics from Johns Hopkins University.