Team

Dr. Ako-Egbe Louis is a General Practitioner with an MD degree obtained from the University of Buea. He obtained a Master of Science in Public Health – Health Systems Management and Policy from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium. Louis is a Fellow and an Emerging Leader of tghe International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua).

He has over six years of experience in clinical medicine, hospital management and health district management. since five years under the Ministry of Public Health and has served as a health facility/system manager in many rural communities in Cameroon. Louis has served as the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Ekona Sub divisional hospital, the Messsondo Sub divisional hospital and now the District Medical Officer in the South West Region.

Louis has a keen interest in community healthcare especially in mitigating the barriers to quality health care faced by vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities. He beliefs that affordable, quality (patient-centred, continuous, effective and integrated) and compassionate home-based care is  a more practical approach to improve health care delivery in most of the rural communities in Cameroon. He also agrees with the thinking that Universal Health Coverage (UHC) can only be achieved via an effective mix of public and private providers.

She is a United Nations volunteer and a Cameroon Women Scholars (CWS) alumni. She is pursuing an MBA in Project Management, and she is strongly driven by the conviction that sustainable health care delivery using contemporary health information technology, through skillful implementation of community health projects and compassionate health service delivery, is the sure way of ensuring Universal Health Coverage.

Etambeh is a graduate with a BSc in Microbiology. She further obtained a MSc. Infectious Disease Control, combined with over 4 years of hospital laboratory practice as a laboratory scientist. With this exposure to the microbiology and infectious disease world, she beliefs that community efforts to enhance hygiene and healthy living are a more cost-effective means of fighting infectious diseases in Cameroon, and Africa as a whole. She is of the philosophy that more initiatives and resources should be spent on preventing infections than in treating them in hospitals.

Etambeh aspires to built a research career in finding out more effective, context-adapted and efficient methods of eliminating microbes from our environment and preventing infections. Microbes breed on cultural beliefs, practices and human behavior, and this is where we have to start fighting infections (‘Social antibiotics’).