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Dr. Jacqueline N. Fonkwo

Consultant, Youth Partnerships

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Jacqueline is FP2030’s Consultant for Youth Partnerships.

With her blend of clinical and public health practice, Jacqueline has championed adolescent and youth health in Cameroon and beyond. Her work has centered on sexual and reproductive health program design, implementation, and evaluation, local, national, and global advocacy, and policy evaluation in different health and wellness projects.

Jacqueline has significant familiarity with the FP2020 and FP2030 partnerships and stakeholders from her experiences both as the FP2020 Youth Focal Point for Cameroon and as an FP2020 Rapid Response Mechanism grantee.

She has participated in a number of prestigious fellowships like the Mandela Washington Fellowship 2021 during which she spent six weeks interacting with the Faculty of the University of Delaware. This was followed by a six-week placement position with the African Family Health Organization (AFAHO) where she co-designed a family planning curriculum for African and Caribbean immigrant teen girls and women in Philadelphia.

Jacqueline was also a Global Health Leadership Accelerator Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2019. She’s a 120 Under 40: New Generation of Family Planning Leader hosted by the Gates Institute. She is a co-chair with the youth sub-committee for the next International Conference on Family Planning scheduled to hold in 2022.

Jacqueline obtained an MSc in Global Health from the Queen Margaret University of Edinburgh – UK in September 2021 as a Commonwealth Scholar. She also holds an MSc in Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine from the University of South Wales – UK, as a Merck Foundation Scholar in 2020. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I – Cameroon in 2017 with an MD degree.

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