Dr. AMANI

Dr. Adidja Amani is a Public health expert and Fulbright alumni with over 5 years of relevant experience at policy level within the Ministry of Public Health and 2 years of solid experience at managerial level within an International Non-Governmental Organization. She currently heads the child health services at the Department of Family Health of the Ministry of Public Health.

Adidja has successively worked at the Douala General Hospital, the largest referral hospital in central Africa, then as a researcher and Intern at the Global Aids Program of the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Upon her return to Cameroon, she worked as the technical advisor of the Human resources department of the Ministry of Public health, then as the Human Resources for Health Program Manager for Africa where she oversaw health workforce development in 23 countries.

Adidja is very involved in community and volunteer work. As the president of several associations in Cameroon and abroad, she leads fundraising activities and health campaigns, including gratis health consultations and education seminars on obesity, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria and empowerment. She is a member of the Fulbright selection committee in Cameroon and reviewer of the WHO Bulletin in French. She is a recipient of the Weston Award and holds several certificates in Governance, Policy, leadership and disease prevention system from CESAG in Senegal, Boston University and Cambridge in the Massachusetts and Tokyo in Japan.

Dr. Amani is the author of the book titled, The Health Workers Crises in Cameroonpublished in 2011; she also authored several technical reports and lectured on public health both in Cameroon and in the US.

Adidja holds a Doctorate of Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the, University of Yaoundé I and a Master of Public Health with a concentration in health policy and management from Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA.She is member of several professional associations including the Global Health Workforce Alliance, the Research Group on Human Resources for Health, the Cameroon Women Medical Association, and the Cameroon Medical Council. Although she has only a basic level in Spanish and Japanese, she is fluent in French, English, Fufuldé and Guidar.