Marguerite Marlow
Intervention Lead/Co-investigator on ParentApp for the Early Years, Project Manager, Identifying and Measuring Playful Parenting Using Machine Learning
Marguerite Marlow is the Intervention Lead/co-investigator on ParentApp for the Early Years and Project Manager for the Identifying and Measuring Playful Parenting Using Machine Learning Project. She is also the Technical Research Lead for the Institute of Life Course Health Research and a Senior Researcher in the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her doctoral research focuses on caregiving practices and child development, based on her work implementing and evaluating an integrated responsive caregiving, nutrition and HIV intervention for caregivers of young children in rural Lesotho.
She has extensive experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of community-based programmes for caregivers of young children in low and middle-income countries such as South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. She previously conducted a review of screening tools for developmental delay and autism spectrum disorders in low- and middle-income countries for the World Health Organization , and consulted for the WHO on training in child developmental assessments for multi-country research. She works as a consultant for the World Bank, developing a global package of guidance materials for caregivers to support child literacy in remote settings.
