Dr. Grace Mabiala-Maye
Grace Mabiala-Maye is a Congolese physician and health services researcher whose work centers on maternal and child health equity, implementation science, and the integration of community-based care into health systems. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the sole female physician for a catchment of about 60,000 people in Bétou, Likouala Region, Republic of the Congo, caring for Congolese nationals, Indigenous communities, and refugees from the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda. That experience continues to shape her conviction that health systems must be designed around the realities of the people they serve.
She earned her medical degree at Université Marien Ngouabi in Brazzaville and came to the United States as a Fulbright scholar. She completed an MPH in Maternal and Child Health, then an MBA in Health Care Management at the University of Nebraska Omaha, and earned her PhD in Health Services and Policy Research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2026. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNMC, where she supports research, program evaluation, and implementation science for Ryan White and HRSA programs advancing HIV treatment, prevention, and access to care. Her research examines how doula services can be integrated into maternity care to advance equity, and she coordinates community-based colorectal cancer screening research through the BEAT Cancer and BRIDGE projects.
Dr. Grace Mabiala-Maye combines clinical expertise, public health training, and business acumen to translate evidence into contextually adapted, financially sustainable solutions that strengthen health systems for the world’s most vulnerable communities. Fluent in French, English, and three Congolese languages, she created Voices from the Field, a bilingual podcast on rural health in Congo that ran from June to December 2025. She now creates and hosts Better Health Habits, a health education series on AIFS Web TV serving African immigrant and refugee families in Omaha. Driven by compassion, evidence, and faith, Dr. Mabiala-Maye works to create health systems that respect every life and serve every community with dignity.
“Healing begins where compassion meets action. My purpose is to serve, to listen, and to build systems where every mother and every child is seen, valued, and cared for.”
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