Johanna Ralston is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the World Heart Federation and Vice Chair of NCD Alliance. She has nearly twenty years of global health and development experience. Prior to becoming CEO of the World Heart Federation, Johanna served as Vice President, Global Strategies at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Ms. Ralston has strong leadership skills and played a key role in launching the ACS University, a programme that is aimed at strengthening civil society’s role in cancer control in low- and middle-income countries. She was has also been involved in the International roll-out of Relay for Life as well as leading global tobacco and cancer control projects in more than 30 countries including the Global Smokefree Partnership.
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