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Fighting NCDs: El-Halabi is now the WHO representative to South Africa

Freelance science and development journalist, BABOKI KAYAWE, caught up with former Health Ministry permanent secretary, Shenaaz El-Halabi, now the WHO Representative to South Africa. The public health veteran spoke passionately about Non-Communicable Diseases and the threat they pose

El-Halabi, in her capacity at the World Health Organisation (WHO), was officiating at a reporting workshop on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), which was part of the sessions for journalists and science communicators at the tenth Science Forum South Africa in Pretoria.

She believes that unmasking the NDC statistics is one of the effective ways to humanise the story. El-Halabi personalised the moment when she put her face to the “figures” making global hypertension statistics. She too is living with hypertension.

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