Jana Jacobs

Jana is a Writer/Editor at the Access to Medicine Foundation. She leads and delivers publishing projects including research reports, news and media announcements. Jana works closely with our team of policy experts and researchers to help shape and structure the Foundation’s findings and insights into compelling texts. This encompasses copywriting, editing, layout and page design, and data visualisation.

She has worked in the media and publishing industry for ten years as a copywriter, journalist and editor. Before joining the Foundation, Jana worked as a writer and editor for an ESG advisory in South Africa, which also ran a non-profit company that produced consumer financial education content. Prior to this, she was a financial journalist and editor at a leading South African financial magazine.

Jana holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts Honours in English Literature & Cultural Studies from the University of Stellenbosch.