Secretariat
The Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP) is hosted by INPUD, and its Secretariat Staff operate remotely through guidance, advice and oversight from its Steering Committee.
Rachel Ong
Regional Coordinator
Rachel Ong has been the Regional Coordinator of GFAN Asia-Pacific since 2016, and currently serves as a co-facilitator of the C20 GHWG and member of the C20 Steering Committee. She was formerly the Constituency Focal Point of the Communities Delegation from 2009 to 2020 and has occupied various governance and leadership positions of Global Fund processes and mechanisms. She is from Singapore and has worked across the Asia-Pacific region since 1999 on youth and gender advocacy and has held various leadership and governance positions in regional and global community/civil society organisations and international institutions. She was based in Beijing, China from 2004 – 2008 as Project Manager of Positive Art Workshop. Rachel holds a double Business Degree in Marketing and Media Management from Edith Cowan University, Australia and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore.
Jennifer Ho
Operations and Programmes Manager
Jennifer Ho is a health advocate based in Bangkok, Thailand with over 20 years of experience in access to essential medicines, community, in particular, key populations’ engagements in health systems and disease programmes, public health policies and universal health coverage (UHC), organisational strengthening, and high-level policy advocacy and engagements. She was a member of the UHC2030 Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) Advisory Group and is currently serving as an Advisor to the Department of Social Work at the National Taiwan University (NTU).
Jennifer has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Masters of Science in International Education with specialisation in non-formal education from the University of Southern California (USC).
Ken Khoo
Communications Officer
Ken Khoo (he, they) is a human rights defender and community organiser with 8 years of marketing communications experience in civil society and nonprofit organisations. In his previous role, he led the brand and marketing functions at Edvolution, an education social enterprise, where he managed the organisation’s communication and engagement strategies with government ministries, corporate sponsors, foundations, community partners, and beneficiaries.
Ken’s involvement in Global Fund programmes started in 2020, when he served as a HIV community outreach worker under the ‘Differentiated HIV Services for Key Populations’ (DHSKP) programme in Malaysia. He also supported the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment as a Campaign Consultant for GFAN AP’s ‘In Extraordinary Times… The Power of More’ campaign carried out in 2022.
As a community advocate, Ken is passionate about addressing accessibility issues that impact the wellbeing of sexual and gender minority communities, such as safe access to affirming mental health, sexual health, and digital security support services. As an executive committee member of People Like Us Hang Out (PLUHO), a Malaysia-based LGBTQ+ rights organisation, he led the design and delivery of capacity-building programmes on LGBTQ-affirmative mental healthcare (the BlueBird Project) and digital security literacy (PROTECT). Ken has also conducted community-engaged research on conversion practices in Malaysia and activists’ wellbeing and burnout in East Asia.