Savior F. Mendin was a site fellow at Last Mile Health in Liberia (2016-2018). She is a Liberian Registered Nurse. She was born and grew up in Monrovia, Montserrado County, and graduated from Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts in Monrovia in 2008 with a diploma in Nursing, and from the Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia, Liberia in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with distinction. In 2008, Savior began working at St. Francis Hospital, the only referral hospital in Rivercess County. Here she saw patients with poor outcomes due to delay in referring them from remote villages, where people must travel several miles through dense forests, crossing rivers in canoes, to access health care. This led Savior to engage with communities to deliver services. She served as a social worker with the United Nations Population Fund, and as supervisor of Community Ebola Case Investigators with the Liberia Ministry of Health. Savior remains zealous about advocating and educating the populace on the need to live healthy lives to promote health and avoid illnesses. Her current function as a Training Supervisor with Last Mile Health, where she trains Community Clinical Supervisors and Community Health Workers in providing basic community health services in remote communities, aligns with her passion to mitigate complications from illnesses, and fosters her ardent ambition to tackle Liberia’s most serious health issues as a public health professional.  In her spare time, Savior enjoys reading mystery novels and listening to Liberian Gospel Music.

Field of work: Community Health Work, Public Health

Areas of interest: Health System Strengthening, Advocacy, Research, Quality Improvement, Equity and inclusion.