about
Strategies for Health & Humanity (S4HH) was founded in 2024 by Noora Elkoussy, a global health and humanitarian professional with 25+ years of experience. With a master’s in Nutrition Education, Noora created S4HH to provide individuals, communities, and organizations with a Food as Medicine approach to healthcare.
backStory
From Crisis to Care, Global to Nutritional Health
In 2013, while serving as Country Director for a program supporting Syrian refugees in Lebanon, I experienced a life-altering health crisis — a hemorrhagic cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) that left me with sudden vision loss and debilitating migraines. Though I underwent urgent brain surgery, the mass was inoperable. The experience forced me to step away from my career in humanitarian leadership and embark on a profoundly personal healing journey.
Determined to find answers beyond conventional medicine, I immersed myself in nutrition, integrative medicine, functional healing, and meditation. I studied micronutrients and herbal therapies, and worked alongside supplement experts, helping hundreds of people improve their chronic conditions. I reversed a prediabetes diagnosis, stabilized my CCM, and transformed my health.
This experience reshaped my mission. Already trained in diplomacy and global public health, I returned to university to earn a Master’s in Nutrition Education and became a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). I founded Strategies for Health & Humanity to reconnect my humanitarian roots with evidence-based nutrition and culturally relevant care.
Today, I support individuals and communities worldwide, drawing on a deep understanding of both crisis and recovery, both in the body and in the world.
Founder Noora Elkoussy
Photo Credit: Charlie Jakob
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Mission, vision, goals
Our Mission
At Strategies for Health & Humanity (S4HH), our mission is to empower individuals and communities to adopt healthy lifestyles and prevent chronic diseases. We achieve this through evidence-based nutrition education, physical activity promotion, and behavior change interventions, grounded in public health principles, social and economic realities, and cultural sensitivity.
Our Vision
We envision a world where food-related chronic diseases are a thing of the past, and healthy, whole foods are accessible to all. Our approach emphasizes moderation, balance, and realistic lifestyle changes over short-term diet trends.
Our Approaches
We believe that food is medicine. S4HH embraces integrative and functional medicine approaches to address the root causes of health issues, rather than merely managing symptoms. Our personalized coaching and support are culturally sensitive and tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual or group.
Our Goals
- Reduce the incidence and severity of chronic diseases globally.
- Provide tailored nutrition education and behavior change programs for individuals, groups, and organizations.
- Promote physical activity as a cornerstone of health and wellness.