Research Officer, EVIHDAF, Cameroon
Hidayatou Mohamadou is EVIHDAF’s Research Officer, based in Yaounde, Cameroon. She has wide-ranging responsibilities, which mainly include developing and implementing projects in Reproductive, Maternal, New-born & Child Health and Nutrition. She leads publication efforts in the form of Research Briefs, Working Papers and peer reviewed articles, and contribute to growing EVIHDAF’s capabilities in research utilization.
She is an epidemiologist and public health specialist. To the position of Principal Investigator, Co-investigator, Research Officer, Project Manager to Supervisor, she led successful human-centred health projects with a great impact. Her key areas of research are HIV prevention and care of MARPs (Most-At Risk Population)/Key populations, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH), Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) and nutrition. Moreover, her 9 years experience in management and implementation of projects allowed her to develop skills in drafting research proposal, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis, publications, monitoring and evaluation, team coaching and reporting.
Before joining EVIHDAF in 2023, she was in charge of overseeing research and interventions on nutritional status of Infants born to HIV-Positive mothers, Adolescents Girls and Young Women with RSD Institute (Health Research and Intervention), UNICEF and the University of Buea, in Cameroon. Between 2014 and 2021, she worked at Moto Action as Research Officer, Project Manager, then Research Advisor for various health programs in partnership with CARE, Expertise France, IRD, UCAC.
She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Buea, Cameroon. She holds a Masters degree in Public Health and Epidemiology from the Catholic University of Central Africa.
Dynamic and goal-oriented, Hidayatou is a member of the Higher Institute for Growth in Health Research for Women (HIGHER WOMEN Consortium), the centre of expertise, information and ideas to promote the career and the empowerment of women health researchers in Cameroon.
