Kyeng Mercy Tetuh

Kyeng Mercy has over three years’ experience in epidemiology and community health research. She is presently the CEO of Value Health Africa, where she focuses on initiating, coordinating, and implementing health projects for the prevention and early detection of noncommunicable diseases, specifically diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and cancer (prostate and cervical). Kyeng Mercy Tetuhvolunteers with Home of Pearls Foundation and Build Our Women as their programs coordinator, and also gives lectures at the Florence Nightingale Biomedical Institute of Bamenda, where she engages students in volunteering in public health advocacy campaigns. Kyeng holds a master’s degree in Public Health/Epidemiology from the Catholic University of Central Africa. Her research focused on the epidemiology of impaired renal function in Bamenda, Cameroon. Upon her return from the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Kyeng intends to institute sustainable programs in partnership with all community health centers in the fight against noncommunicable diseases in Cameroon.