Mark J. Hathaway, MD, MPH, is a board certified OB/GYN and served on the teaching faculty at Medstar Washington Hospital Center from 1997-2013. There he developed and led the Section of Community Outreach, the Family Planning Section, the Ryan Residency Program, and the Family Planning Fellowship. He currently is a Senior Technical Advisor for Reproductive Health at Jhpiego, an international NGO, which focuses on international maternal child health, and assists with the Family Planning Programs at Unity Health Care in Washington, DC.
Dr. Hathaway has served on several national-level work groups and committees, including the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee on Family Planning and the Title X Expert Panel. He holds appointments at George Washington University (GWU). He served on the Board of Directors of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) and currently on the board of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP).
Dr. Hathaway received his undergraduate degree in biology from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and then served in the Peace Corps as an Agricultural Extensionist Volunteer and Program Coordinator in Paraguay, South America for close to 4 years. After receiving his medical degree from the University of Kentucky, he completed an OB/GYN residency at the Washington Hospital Center in 1997. He earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 2006. He has been named one of the “Best Doctors in America,”and in September 2013 he left his full time faculty position to concentrate on international and national advocacy and trainings. In May-June of 2014 he volunteered with Doctors without Borders in Aweil, South Sudan directing and teaching in a large maternity ward. Dr. Hathaway teaches, lectures and advocates for family planning and maternal child health care access issues nationally and internationally on a frequent basis.