Anna Dirksen is Director of Communications at ACCESS Health International. She has led communications and outreach strategies at a number of multinational organizations and international nonprofits, including at the United Nations Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Japan, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and at the UN Secretariat in New York. She also served as Vice President at Corkery Unlimited, one of the leading strategic consulting firms specializing in health and medical communications, and Deputy Director of Communications for the global health organization Population Services International.