Dr Raoul Kamadjeu
Health Specialist, Public Health Emergencies, UNICEF; Managing Editor/Founder, Pan African Medical Journal (Nairobi, Kenya)
Raoul Kamadjeu is a physician, co-founder and managing editor of the Pan African Medical Journal, an open access publishing house based in Kenya and Cameroon. The PAMJ operates from two offices in Kenya and Cameroon with 15 full time staff; publishes three biomedical journals and provides various other services to authors in Africa and outside of Africa.
Raoul got his doctorate in Medicine in Cameroon, completed his MPH in Belgium (ULB) and recently enrolled in the PhD program in Epidemiology with the City University of New York. He has experienced the broad spectrum of public health practice, from the district in Cameroon to international arenas with the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he worked for 10 years, and now with UNICEF. Raoul is a keen supporter of the Open Access movement. He thinks Africa as a major beneficiary of OA should also be recognized as a potential contributor; for this reason, he worked for more than 10 years to help develop a credible and vibrant biomedical open access publishing industry in Africa.