Giuseppe is Creative Director of Assemble Papers and a Director of Assemble. While known for the creativity he offers high-profile clients through his agency Local Peoples and as a founder of NCDFREE, he is also famous for his beard – one of the most coveted face-warmers in Melbourne.

Dr Alessandro Demaio who has trained and worked as a medical doctor at The Alfred Hospital in Australia. While practising as a doctor he completed a Masters in Public Health including fieldwork in Cambodia to develop and evaluate a community-based, culturally appropriate health intervention for noncommunicable diseases, particularly diabetes.

In 2010, Alessandro relocated to Denmark where he completed a PhD with the University of Copenhagen, focusing on noncommunicable diseases. Alessandro held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School from 2013 to 2015, and was assistant professor and course director in global health at the Copenhagen School of Global Health, in Denmark. He has established and led the PLOS blog Translational Global Health, and has served on the Advisory Board of the EAT Initiative: the global, multi-stakeholder platform for food, health and environmental sustainability. To date, he has authored over 20 scientific publications and more than 80 blog articles.

In November 2015, Alessandro joined the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development at the World Health Organization, as Medical Officer for noncommunicable conditions and nutrition. share their skills and experiences.

Daniel is a Barrister at the Victorian Bar and a board director of NCDFree and the Sandro Demaio Foundation. Daniel holds degrees in Law (with Honours) and Arts at Monash University and is currently studying his Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne. Before coming to the Bar, Daniel worked as a solicitor at Arnold Bloch Leibler.
Daniel is an avid foodie and enjoys working with the passionate team at NCDFree and supporting them to make a real difference to the lives of others in the community.

Michaela has a track record of successful professional marketing and communications with a number of global luxury brands spanning 10 years. She is able to develop and deliver marketing strategies to support NCDFREE activities and stakeholder engagement objectives. Michaela also brings strong commercial skills with expertise in campaign management and digital communications.

Jack Fisher is a communications consultant working within NCDs and Global Health. He has a MSc in Global Health from the Copenhagen School of Global Health and has a variety of experiences working within academia, multilateral organisations and civil society covering topics such as climate change and health, environmental health and humanitarian action.

Lucy has spent her career working in the intersection of health and technology, exploring ways to build and measure solutions that support health at scale.

She was the inaugural General Manager of Smiling Mind, which she grew to be Australia's most successful wellbeing app with over 1.5 million users in 3 years. She was a finalist in the 2016 Young Australian of the Year Awards for this work.

Prior to joining NCDFREE, Lucy spent 3 years in the New York tech scene with the vision to learn best-practices in technology and innovation, and apply them to the health sector.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) from Monash University, and is currently undertaking her Master of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Prachi is the Research Coordinator at NCDFREE. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Masters and DPhil in Public Health. Prachi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford where her research interests cover healthy equity and creating supportive social and physical environments for healthy living.

Eddie Cliff is an Australian junior doctor with a passion for public health and policy, who trained at Monash University and undertook honours in diabetes physiology at the University of Oxford. He has worked on policy for the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations and the Australian Medical Students’ Association, where he was a lead author on the nutrition policy. He was on the marketing team for festival21, and has also led campaigns on mental health, blood donations, vaccinations and education.

Elyse Franko-Filipasic is a communications specialist with more than a decade of experience working on projects related to global health and development. Prior to joining NCDFREE, she worked on communications projects for the Global Nutrition Report, Management Sciences for Health, and the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, among other organizations.

She holds an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London (UCL), where she focused her research on the implementation of rational medicine use policy to combat antimicrobial resistance in Turkey.

Elyse is based in Istanbul, where she can often be found playing Turkish music on a variety of stringed instruments.

Emma Honkala is a Finnish global health graduate of University of Copenhagen. She holds a Bachelors degree in Geography from University Edinburgh and is a former intern with the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Currently, Emma is working for a health care design agency overseeing a large-scale project on the topic of personalised cancer medicine.

Timothy is a Master of Public Health graduate from the University of Tasmania, and current PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.

His current research centres around the role of information in person-centred, participatory, integrated primary healthcare for people with a lived experience of severe mental illness.

Before joining NCDFREE, he helped design and evaluate the Shock Verdict national public health campaign on cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Timothy is especially passionate about health in rural and regional areas, having grown up in outer regional Tasmania.

Jimi Michiel is an American epidemiologist and technical consultant with a background in leveraging mobile technology to address the most pressing global health challenges. A member of the summer teaching staff at the Copenhagen School of Global Health, James is also a technical consultant for Boston University, the Tech Guy at NCDFREE, and formerly an mHealth analyst with Pathfinder International.
James’ recent projects have included supporting the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) in an e-learning initiative, working with the Vietnamese Ministry of Health to build an SMS system to deliver continuing medical education to community-based physician assistants, and leading a team from NCDFREE to develop a smartphone app that helps users decrease their exposure to NCD risk factors. His analysis of the link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and male fecundability as part of the Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) has recently been accepted for presentation by both the Society of Epidemiological Research and the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research.

James received his MPH in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health. Also a trained classical musician, James holds degrees in trumpet performance and music history from the New England Conservatory and has performed in Carnegie Hall to positive review by the New York Times.

Carol Mukiira is from Kenya and is a highly versatile individual with 9 years of experience in research and project management in Africa. She holds a Master’s degree in Demography and Population Studies from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the United States International University, Kenya. Her areas of interest include non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, reproductive health and health systems strengthening.
Recently, Carol managed a project on medicine access for non-communicable diseases in Kenya and worked on the review of various county health sector strategic and investment plans in Kenya.

Jessica Renzella is the Strategic Development Coordinator at NCDFREE. She holds a Bachelor of Biomedicine and a Master of Public Health, and is currently reading for a DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford. Her research concentrates on the impact of urban environments on nutrition and noncommunicable diseases.

Rhea Saksena is a British global health graduate and is pursuing a career in medicine. She holds a Bachelors degree in Global Health from University College London and is a former intern with the World Health Organization European Regional Office within the department of Nutrition, Obesity and Physical Activity. She is an active global health campaigner around the issues of nutrition and obesity and tackling the structural drivers of poor health and nutrition.