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Nsenga Farrell

Senior Communications and Engagement Manager

Nsenga Farrell

Biography

Nsenga Farrell relishes using the power of communication to improve healthcare access and equity for all. She spent more than a decade honing her practice in the private sector. Most recently, as Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy at Publicis, one of the world’s most awarded agency groups. She was responsible for a diverse healthcare portfolio totaling more than $2M in annual revenue. 

Beginning her career at Arnold, Nsenga leveraged her knowledge of behavioral psychology and women’s health and her skills in qualitative research to help deliver a new business win with GlaxoSmithKline. She also studied and researched the award winning Truth campaign. 

Nsenga then joined Ogilvy & Mather and further distinguished herself as a passionate consumer advocate. She developed the launch communication strategy for Let’s Move!, working alongside former First Lady Michelle Obama. As the strategy lead on the Merck business, she introduced Januvia to increase and improve treatment of Type 2 diabetes. She also developed the communication platform for “I Stand with Magic” to reduce HIV stigma in the Black/African American community.

Nsenga has won numerous professional awards including the Effie Award for Advertising Effectiveness and the Pharmaceutical Marketing Excellence Award. She is founded a nonprofit, Women Behaving Healthy Inc., to address chronic disease prevention and treatment in the Caribbean.    

Nsenga has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s in Communication from New York University. She is currently completing her dissertation on health disparities at Columbia University. She loves yoga and cycling, documentary films, and cheering on her young son, Nile, at weekend basketball games. She resides in Mount Airy, Philadelphia.

 

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