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Editorial staff of the PAMJ - Year 2025

Raoul Kamadjeu

Managing editor - Kenya

Raoul Kamadjeu is a physician, co-founder of the Pan African Medical Journal. He is driven in all his projects by a simple motto - Start small, but think big..! - He got his doctorate in Medicine in Cameroon and completed his MPH in Belgium (ULB). He experienced the broad spectrum of public health practice, from the district in Cameroon to international arenas with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He worked with CDC from 2004 to 2006 as Public Health Informatics Fellow and from 2007 to 2014 as medical epidemiologist. His expertise spans across fields as varied as epidemiology, biostatistics, informatics, communication, computer programming and project management. Raoul is a research junky and a keen supporter of the Open Access movement in science. He thinks Africa as a major beneficiary of OA should also become a major contributor. When he is not working (this is rare), he indulges various hobbies like being surrounded by loved ones, music, movies, books and sport.

editor@panafrican-med-journal.com

Landry Tsague

Managing Editor - Ethiopia

Dr Tsague Dongmo is a co-founder of PAMJ. He strongly believes in the potential of Open Access Medical Publishing to accelerate access to knowledge and foster experience sharing among medical and public health professionals globally and in Africa in particular. He advocates for Open Access to Medical Publishing as a gateway for African public health professionals and researchers to address inequity in access and publication of research findings. PAMJ was created to leverage this potential. Dr Tsague is a Medical Doctor and Global Health Expert trained in Cameroon. He brings a diverse and rich leadership and programming track record on HIV/AIDS, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH), Immunization, and Health System Strengthening in Africa. He is most known as a passionate advocate for adopting more efficacious solutions to end pediatric HIV and AIDS in Africa. He serves on the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) and the International Conference on HIV and STI in Africa (ICASA). He received recognitions for his contributions to Public Health, including the International Aids Society Young Investigator Award (2005), the Emory University's William Foege Fellowship Award (2005), the New Investigator in Global Health Award (2006), the Emory University Shepard Award for Scientific Merit (2007), the Western Cape University Public Health Social Innovation's Award (2014), and the Jakes Gerwel Award in Public Health (2023). Dr. Tsague served as Chief Medical Officer for Cameroon's PMTCT program in the Ministry of Health in 2004. Landry earned his Doctorate in Medicine in 2002 from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMSB) Yaounde, Cameroon; a master's in public health from the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA and a Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Western Cape, South Africa.

landry.tsague@panafrican-med-journal.com

Olivia Tsague

Editor - Cameroon

Olivia Tsague is one of the editors of Panafrican Medical Journal.She has a bachelors degree and Master's degree in public health obtained respectively from the Higher Institute of Medical Technology and the Catholic University of Cameroon in public health. She carries out the editing, formatting and preparation for review of papers submitted to PAMJ. In her free time, Olivia spent time with friends and likes watching new about health in Africa .

olivia.tsague@panafrican-med-journal.com

Audrey Kenni

Assistant editor - Cameroon

Audrey Kenni, is a Law graduate of the Douala University in Cameroon, She is now Editor Assistant at PAMJ, where she carries out the pre production materials i.e editing, formatting and preparation for review of papers submitted to PAMJ as well as the post production of those submissions. She first made several interships in journalism in many radios in Cameroon.

audrey.kenni@panafrican-med-journal.com

Emmanuelle Njankou

Assistant Editor - Cameroon

Emmanuelle Njankou is graduated from the Higher Institute of Medical Technology with a Bachelor degree in public health. She did several nursing internships at various health district hospitals in Douala (Cameroon) and is enthusiastically embracing a career in biomedical publishing with PAMJ Cameroon office. Actually, she is incharge of PAMJ-Conference Proceedings which is a publication of PAN African Medical Journal. She has as hobbies travelling, music, reading articles of public health.

emmanuelle.njankou@panafrican-med-journal.com

Daniela Triulzi

Medical Translator - Italy

Daniela is a qualified and certified medical translator with 22 years experience. She has been working as translator and proofreader for private firms and medical journals since 1998. She graduated in Foreign Languages from the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan with a specialization in Public Relations. She furthermore holds three post-graduate specializations (2003-2011) including International Masters Degree in Medical Translation from the Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Pescara, Translation for Publishing Houses from the Langue & Parole Formazione, Milan and Press Office and Media Relations from the Business School IL SOLE 24 ORE , Milan. Her areas of expertise include medical questionnaires, clinical trials, patient information leaflets, pharmaceutical product profiles, medical case reports, abstracts, recommendations, manuscripts, pharmaceutical regulations.

daniela.triulzi@panafrican-med-journal.com

Grace Mungai

Assistant editor - Kenya

Grace is an assistant editor at the Pan African Medical Journal Kenyan office. She carries out post submission quality control checks, pre-publication as well as post-publication processing of articles submitted to PAMJ. She holds a degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Nairobi. In 2015, she did Internship programs at the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of the National Government, Kenya and in 2016 she worked part-time at Second Hand Kenya, an online company where she used to review and publish posted advertisements. She is enthusiastic and believes in being dependable in handling tasks assigned to her. She is the head of the Kenyan editorial team.

grace.mungai@panafrican-med-journal.com

Winnie Mwema

Assistant editor - Kenya

Winnie Mwema carries out quality control and pre-publication processing at PAMJ. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Nairobi. She believes in hardwork, diligence and being organised. During her free time, Winnie loves socializing, listening to cool music and reading.

winnie.mwema@panafrican-med-journal.com

Luchuo Engelbert Bain

Scientific Editor (Research) - Netherlands

Luchuo is a public health physician, bioethicist, and researcher in innovation in global health. He earned an MD degree in general medicine from the Faculty of medicine and biomedical sciences of the University of Yaounde 1 in Cameroon (2009), a Master of Public Health Degree (MPH - Epidemiology) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (2013), a Master of Bioethics (Clinical and Research Ethics) from KU Leuven in Belgium (2015), and an executive Masters in Business Administration (MBA, strategic human resources management) from the Universidad Internacional de la Rioja in Spain (2019). Luchuo holds a PhD in transdisciplinary global health solutions (2020) from the Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in the Health and Life Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands and the Bordeaux Population Health Research institute (ISPED) of the University of Bordeaux in France. He has clinical and research expertise in HIV and TB medicine, health systems research, and adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights. Since July 2020, Luchuo is a Research Fellow in Global Health with the Lincoln International Institute for Rural Health (LIIRH), of the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom, and a visiting scientist with the Infectious Diseases in Lower Income Countries (IDLIC) Team, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Centre, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

luchuo.bain@panafrican-med-journal.com

Brunhilda Tambe

Assistant Editor, Social Media - Cameroon

Brunhilda Tambe carries out social media management, quality control, and pre-publication processing at PAMJ. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English with Journalism and Public Relations from the Cameroon Christian University Institute (CCUI) Bali, Cameroon. Brunhilda has done internships on writing, broadcasting, communications officer, voluntary work with the District Hospital Limbe, Cameroon; has also completed an online course "Editorial Processes for Journal Editors" with INASP and is gradually embracing a career in health Journalism. She is open minded, positive thinker, loves to travel, read, loves good music as well as sings them and has a general interest in fine arts.

brunhilda.tambe@panafrican-med-journal.com

Marie Paule Adamou

Assistant Editor - Cameroon

Marie Paule Atalmbah A. is graduate in Publishing from the Advanced School of Mass Media and Communication (ASMAC) Yaounde, Cameroon. She has been into communication in the field of publishing, especially, documentation, text reviewing and writing. She works as an Editor in charge of postproduction at Panafrican Medical Journal Cameroon and has as hobbies reading and traveling.

paule.adamou@panafrican-med-journal.com

Jean Jacques Noubiap

Scientific editor (Clinical Research) - Australia

Jean Jacques is a specialist physician and researcher from Cameroon. His main qualifications include a Doctor of Medicine degree (2011, University of Yaoundé I, in Cameroon), a Certificate in Clinical and Translational Investigation (2013, New York University School of Medicine, USA), a Diploma in Internal Medicine (2016, College of Medicine of South Africa), a Master of Medicine (2019, University of Cape Town) and a Fellowship of the College of Physicians of South Africa (2019, College of Medicine of South Africa). Jean Jacques is mainly interested in the epidemiology and genetics of cardiovascular risk factors and diseases, especially in African populations. Other research interests include the genetics of hearing impairment, the interplay between infectious and cardiovascular diseases, and access to health care. Between 2014 and 2020, he has co-authored more than two hundred publications mostly on cardiovascular diseases. He received an International Early Career Investigator Award from the American Heart Association in 2018. He is a co-Principal Investigator in few research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the World Heart Federation. He is a Global Burden of Disease study collaborator and a World Heart Federation Emerging Leader (2019).

jjnoubiap@panafrican-med-journal.com

Kelvin Nderitu

Editorial staff - Kenya

Kelvin Muchiri is an assistant editor at the Pan African Medical Journal, Kenyan office. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya. He is keen on precision and accuracy of all the articles forwarded to this prestigious journal. Among the duties assigned to him include: quality control of manuscripts, processing of manuscripts, prompt communication with the authors of individual manuscripts either by email or telephone and any other duty as assigned.

kelvin.Nderitu@panafrican-med-journal.com

Gladwel Muthoni

Editorial Intern - Kenya

Gladwel Muthoni is an assistant editor at Pan African Medical, Kenyan office. She holds a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Her core duties include but not limited to post-publication processing of articles published to PAMJ. She prioritises her duties with precision and accuracy that is required of a prestigious journal as Pan African Medical Journal.

gladwel.muthoni@panafrican-med-journal.com

Boris Noukoua

Assistant editor - Cameroon

Boris Noukoua is a graduate of Publishing from the Advanced School of Mass Media and Communication. He also did training in Graphic design. Boris has done internships in writing, communication, in publishing. He works as an assistant editor in postproduction at Panafrican Medical Journal Cameroon and has as hobbies reading, sports, listening to music, and traveling.

boris.noukoua@panafrican-med-journal.com

Volume 52 (Sep - Dec 2025)

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