Nangoh Nangoh Maewo

Nangoh Maewo Nangoh is a skilled physician with over 4 years’ experience in health care management, health policy development, project management, primary healthcare, reproductive healthcare and mental health care in various humanitarian crises in resource limited settings across Cameroon and Africa. His experience spans through the humanitarian response in Chad, working with refugees from Central African Republic, to his intervention with International Medical Corps (IMC) in Far North Cameroon, managing and providing comprehensive healthcare to Cameroonian internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Nigerian refugees fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency in North East Nigeria. Nangoh is fully proficient in English and French with limited proficiency in Spanish, holds a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) Degree from the University of Buea, has various health-related diplomas and is a certified humanitarian from the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard in Boston, USA. As a Medical Doctor and later Acting Project Coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ethiopia, he oversaw the coordination of responses with the government and other NGOs to a fatal acute watery diarrhea (AWD) outbreak which saw the treatment of over 10,000 patients with AWD across 6 different towns and the training of over 100 local staff in the management of AWD. Upon completion of the Fellowship, Nangoh Nangoh Maewo intends to join the MSF medical and nutrition emergency response in North East Nigeria as a Project Medical Referent. In due time, he intends to obtain Master’s in Public Policy with focus on Health Policy for IDPs and refugees in Cameroon and across Africa so as to be a major advocate and stakeholder for the health policies governing people in humanitarian crises across Africa.