Olivia Ngou is the founder and Executive Director of Impact Santé Afrique an African based NGO a women led organization focusing on health advocacy, community engagement and building gender transformative health programs .
Prior launching ISA, she led the Cameroon and Africa programs for Malaria No More helping to keep malaria high on the agenda and rally political, celebrities , private sector and communities leaders around the cause. Olivia began her experience on malaria at the Special Envoy for Malaria at the United Nations; during that time she taught a public health course at the City University of New York: Health of the Wellness Project for undergraduate’s students at CITY College. She also worked with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control as a research assistant and , she was a fellow of the Harvard University Science of Eradication Malaria Leadership Course. She holds a master degree in Public Health.
Olivia has a great passion public health & the fight against malaria and maternal and child health ; She is based in Cameroon, central Africa. she is striving to make her humble contribution to help create a world where no dies from a mosquito bite. She is committed to ensuring communities are included in malaria and health programs as equal partners . She recently elaborated a guide on community issues, social rights and gender in malaria programs and tool for malaria civil society to increase participating in Global Fund mechanisms.
She co-founded and established the first Global Network of Civil Society for Malaria Elimination (CS4ME) which she now coordinates with more than 600 members from 43 countries. She also coordinates the GFAN AFRICA francophone plateform to increase advocacy for the fight against malaria TB and HIV/AIDS in francophone Africa. She was the recipient of the prestigious REACH THE LAST MILE 2019 CHAMPION award. She is also a member of the Global Fund Communities Delegation to the Board , A member of the advisory group of the Community Rights & Gender of the Global Fund. Recently she is selected as the CO CHAIR of RBM ARMPC - advocacy resource mobilisation partners committee of the global rbm- partnership to end malaria.
Through her NGO impact santé Afrique and the Global Network of Civil Society for Malaria Elimination she is supporting civil society including , community based, youth faith based and women led organizations and as well national malaria programs in to increase local advocacy, malaria gender transformative programs, community engagement and domestic resource mobilization for health. For more information about her work www.impactsante.org and www.cs4me.org
