Andre Pascal Kengne

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Andre Pascal Kengne

Director of Programs, Research

ABOUT Andre Pascal Kengne

Prof. Andre Pascal is the Director of Programs, in charge of Research at the African Population Health Research Center (APHRC). He trained as a physician specializing in Internal Medicine at the University of Yaounde 1 in Cameroon, where he worked until 2005 before joining the George Institute for Global Health in Australia. He completed his PhD in Medicine at the University of Sydney (2009) while working on landmark global studies, including the ADVANCE trial and the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration (APCSC).

He thereafter spent a short post-doctoral time at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the University Medical Center Utrecht (The Netherlands), working on the Pan-European EPIC-InterAct study before joining the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) in April 2011. He served SAMRC as the first Director of its Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit (NCDRU) from 2013 to 2024.

 

 

Andre holds conjoint appointment as Professor at the Department of Medicine of the University of Cape Town, Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Global Health of the Stellenbosch University, and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the Walter Sisulu University, South Africa. He is a Senior Fellow of the George Institute for Global Health (Australia), the Julius Center (The Netherlands), and Honorary Chief Specialist Scientist at SAMRC. He is a member of several professional bodies and leading expert groups and has received numerous distinctions in his career including the Jiri Windimsky Sr Award (2006) and International Society of Hypertension Developing Countries Award (2022); the Gold Award (2023 and Lifetime Platinum Award (2022) for scientific excellence from the South African Medical Research Council; the Sir Alberti Award (2017) and the Sir Albert Cook Memorial Lecture Award (2023) from the East African Diabetes Study Group.

Andre is passionate about research and capacity development on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), focusing on low- and middle-income countries, particularly Africa. His research areas include chronic disease epidemiology, prevention, and decision-making in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. He is the ADVANCE risk model developer who estimates the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes. He pioneered task-shifting to improve access to prevention and control of NCDs in resource-constrained settings. He is the author/co-author of over 660 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a board member of several journals, including the International Journal of Epidemiology, PLoS Medicine, and the Journal of the American Heart Association.