Ellen Agler Biography

Ellen Agler currently serves as the CEO of the END Fund (www.end.org) a private philanthropic initiative dedicated to ensuring that all people at risk of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) receive the treatment they need to live healthy and prosperous lives. The END Fund works to control and eliminate the five most prevalent NTDs that affect over 1.5 billion people globally. The END Fund works collaboratively through a systems change approach to scaling up locally owned and led treatment and prevention programs for intestinal worms schistosomiasis river blindness lymphatic filariasis and blinding trachoma. Since its launch in 2012 the END Fund has helped to provide treatments to over 330 million people at risk of NTDs and train over 740000 community health workers in 29 countries.
Ellen has worked for over 20 years in the field of global health across more than 70 countries in Latin America Africa Asia and the Middle East and for organizations including Operation Smile and International Medical Corps. Ellen holds master’s degrees in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health with a focus on humanitarian affairs and in Development Studies from the London School of Economics with a focus on child rights and NGO management. She has also completed postgraduate work in conflict resolution at Universidad de Javeriana in Bogota Colombia. She previously worked as a journalist in political communications.

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