Jessica joined the NCD Alliance in January 2022 as a Capacity Development Officer, to support the roll out of the flagship Advocacy Institute, responsible for grant administration duties, context and advocacy opportunities monitoring and M&E processes. She supports the Advocacy Institute training programmes and the development of capacity development research and knowledge products. She has experience in global health, research and capacity strengthening having most recently worked in implementation focused capacity strengthening research programmes in LMICs contexts with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She also worked in Guinea within the NGO ALIMA where she oversaw the monitoring and reporting and learning processes of humanitarian projects and a vaccine trial implementation. Jessica holds a MPH from the EHESP School of Public Health (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique), and a MSc. in Global Health from the University of Maastricht and McMaster University.