A pharmacist since 2004, Neusa Bay is the Project Coordinator for the Mozambique Co-Secretariat of the NCDI Poverty Network. She is also a researcher with a focus in noncommunicable diseases care in settings of poverty, health systems strengthening, and gender-related aspects of health.

Her early experience was in pharmacy management and procurement in hospital and community pharmacy. Later she worked in pharmacy regulation, managing the medicine registration information system and providing information to the Ministry of Health for decision-making at the National Medicine Regulatory Authority.

From 2013 to 2018, Bay continued supporting the National Medicine Regulatory Authority and the Hospital Pharmacy Department through a nongovernmental organization. She coordinated the establishment of an evidence-based mechanism for the National Essential Medicines List revision and the installation of an advanced medicine registration information system at the National Medicine Regulatory Authority. At the Hospital Pharmacy Department, she initially coordinated the creation of the Hospital Therapeutics and Pharmacy Committees and later collaborated on its establishment in all provinces.

Since 2018, as a research assistant for the Mozambique Institute for Health Education and Research, Bay has coordinated both quantitative and qualitative research on noncommunicable disease care, with a focus on health systems and gender-related aspects of health.

She is currently working on her MPH on health-systems readiness for noncommunicable disease care implementation, again with a focus on men’s health.