Elena Ghanotakis is a global health and development consultant with 17 years of multi-disciplinary experience working across health and development. She has worked on HIV and other infectious diseases; gender equality; adolescent health; maternal and child health; family planning; and reproductive health, and in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Elena specializes in technical writing, including proposals, policy analyses, and analytic tools. She has researched and authored numerous publications, including peer-reviewed articles, organizational reports and gray literature, technical briefs, training manuals, and online courses. In 2019, Elena worked for DTA on a series of global health proposals for a large nonprofit organization.
Recent examples of Elena’s technical writing projects include: a CDC proposal focused on global health security (COVID-19) in the Democratic Republic of Congo; a proposal on health information systems in Mozambique; a photo essay on the malaria supply chain in Ethiopia; and a toolkit on structural HIV risk in adolescent girls and young women (UNICEF).
Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Elena worked with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation for six years. At this foundation, she provided technical support to their country programs globally. She was co-chair of the Finance and Economics Working Group for the Inter-Agency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and their Infants. Elena previously made two documentaries for PBS Frontline World on gender-based violence in South Africa. She graduated with honors from Dartmouth College with a BA in Government/International relations. Elena has a MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
