Kanya Ndaki

BOARD MEMBER

Kanya Ndaki is a seasoned health communicator. She is currently the director of communications at The Aurum Institute and has just over 2 decades of media and communications experience; thirteen of which were as an award-winning journalist and editor. Ndaki was previously the head of communications at the South African National Aids Council where she was in charge of providing strategic communication support to the body’s units and structures. Prior to that, as regional editor for UN humanitarian news service Irin News (now The New Humanitarian), she covered humanitarian and development issues and co-founded PlusNews, Irin’s dedicated HIV/Aids news service in 2001. Ms Ndaki also serves as a Board Member of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and the Panos Institute of Southern Africa.