Dr Kengne Kamga Karen

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cameroon

Dr Karen is a Cameroonian Medical Doctor whose passion for Genetics and social science started more than ten years ago when, as a medical student, he worked on “Aetiologies of developmental delay in children between 3 and 72 months” for his final dissertation. For the following five years, he worked as a GP in a semi-urban setting before moving to the prestigious University of Cape Town (UCT) to complete his PhD in genetic counselling. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in medicine at UCT.

He is currently conducting confirmatory interviews for the PUBGEM-Africa Project at the Cameroon site. In parallel, he is coding the previously transcribed interviews, following our collaborative work in developing the codebook.

When he is not working or studying, he will be doing some agricultural work, music (piano), martial art or spending some quality time with his friend