The MENTOR Initiative
Kathryn Johnson is an experienced communications professional with a strong background in content development and strategic communications. Currently serving as a Content Developer at The Mentor Initiative since April 2022, Kathryn has previously held positions including Senior Communications Officer at Renewable World and Communications Officer at Macmillan Cancer Support. An editor at Sign Update magazine for five years, Kathryn began their career as a Communications Officer at Poplar HARCA, where responsibilities included producing newsletters and managing publications. Kathryn also contributed as a voluntary Board Director for Mosac, participating in executive decision-making and staff management. Educational qualifications include a BJourn in Journalism from Rhodes University, a Plain English diploma from the Plain English Campaign, and a Counselling Skills Certificate from London Metropolitan University.
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The MENTOR Initiative
The MENTOR Initiative works with the world's most vulnerable and hard to reach communities to reduce death and suffering from tropical diseases. Since 2002, MENTOR has been responding to global humanitarian crises to save lives. We stay for as long as it takes to help people recover – working side by side with communities, health workers and health authorities to leave a lasting impact. Our first and last considerations are the needs of the people we serve. Working in insecure and high risk environments we establish large scale disease control during humanitarian emergencies. At the same time, we develop the capacity for the long-term sustainable control of these diseases. We collaborate closely with communities, health workers, health authorities and other international organisations to establish effective surveillance, preventative and curative services and learning for the future. The strength of our partnerships bring together knowledge, power and resources for the greatest impact. Our investment in targeted operational research brings evidence-based and proven disease control solutions to all our programmes. We use this learning to innovate, reduce costs and influence international policy and practice. We will always uphold the highest professional values, standards, quality and accountability and our teams are committed to stay until the job is done.