Prof. Yunkap Kwankam

Prof. S. Yunkap Kwankam is a world-renowned expert on digital health. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and was elected to the following American honor associations: Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering), Tau Beta Pi (Engineering), and Sigma Xi (Research).

He is currently CEO of Global eHealth Consultants, a Geneva-based consultancy which has developed national digital health policies and strategies for several countries and international organizations. He is also the Executive Director of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) and Chairman of Telehealth International. He serves, or has served, on several digital health advisory bodies, including: the Global Alliance for Health and Social Compact Advisory Board; World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Digital Health; Innovation Working Group Task Force on the Global Knowledge Commons for m-eHealth (Co-Chair); International Council of Nurses eHealth Strategy Advisory Group, Mobile Health Global Advisory Committee, of the Mobile World Capital's mHealth Competence Center, Barcelona, Spain; Care Innovation Corporation (Chief Innovation Adviser); African Development Bank eHealth Awards Committee (Co-Chair); WHOPMHCH Advisory group on ICT for health; and SateLife Board of Directors.

As founding Chief of eHealth at the World Health Organization HQ, Geneva (2004 , 2008), he was responsible for the overall coordination of eHealth across the Organization and Executive Head of the Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe). Before joining WHO in 2001, he was a Professor and Director at the Center for Health Technology at the University of Yaound, Cameroon. He has also served as a consultant to WHO, ITU, UNIDO, the World Bank, and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Honors Include

Lifetime Achievement Award, Global Digital Health Summit, Expo & Innovation Awards, New Delhi (2022); Founding Fellow and Treasurer, Cameroon Academy of Science (CAS).