Elyse Franko-Filipasic is a Berlin-based writer and communications consultant specializing in global health and development. She currently serves as NCDFREE’s global communications coordinator, and has previously supported communications initiatives for a variety of organizations, including management sciences for health, the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, and the International Food Policy Research Institute. She holds a M.Sc. in international public policy from University College London.
The third high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases was business as usual, but it doesn’t have to be. NCD Free outlines how new life can be breathed into an initiative that in many ways is falling flat.