Secretariat
The Global Fund Advocates Network Asia-Pacific (GFAN AP) is hosted by APCASO, and its Secretariat Staff operate remotely through guidance, advice and oversight from its Steering Committee.
Rachel Ong
Regional Coordinator, Singapore
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.
Based in Singapore
Anukriti Singh
Communications and Media Officer
Anukriti Singh is a curious and creative person usually filled with questions and ideas. She is passionate about human rights, public health, and gender equality. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Delhi University, and holds a Masters degree in the same.
She was a part of the #GenEndIt youth Steering Group from 2022 to 2023, where she undertook national level campaigning for AIDS. Additionally, she serves in the Global Advisory Panel of HIV Justice Network since 2022.
Anukriti has previously worked for a New York-based weekly South Asian Insider; after which she worked at Evidence Action, India on two national level public health programs, providing technical assistance to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India; then CREA on issues such as SRHR, gender rights, disability justice, feminist leadership and movement building, and sex workers rights.
Based in New Delhi, India.