Professor Anne Esther Njom Nlend is a pediatrician and neonatologist, with a mixed profile both clinician and public health. After her training in France, she came back in her country in the early 1990s. As clinician she has worked for almost 30 years in NSIF (National Social Insurance Fund) hospital, where she was chief of pediatric service and then ended as Director of Essos hospital Centre. In the areas of public health, she has been a pioneer in the fight against transmission of HIV from mother-to-child (PMTCT) through National AIDS Control Committee, and later on she was involved in documenting survival of HIV perinatally infected children in Cameroon. As implementation researcher, she has been documenting successes and lessons learnt of PMTCT of HIV through many publications in peer reviewed journals. As neonatologist, her key interests are preterm birth, breastfeeding and the fight against neonatal asphyxia through training on primary resuscitation of newborn using simulation. In addition, she has been a frontline advocate for the establishment of perinatal networks in the country. Prof Anne Esther Njom Nlend has been involved in many professional societies, founder and current President of Cameroon Society of Perinatal medicine, Past Vice-president and Secretaire General of Cameroon Pediatric Association, 6th and current President of Cameroon Medical Women Association. At international level she is member of French society of neonatology, member of Africa network of HIV/AIDS in Children, focal point for Africa of Association Europeenne d’Enseignement de la Pediatrie. In her areas of expertise she has provided technical assistance to 10 countries of Subsaharan Africa, including visiting almost one in 2 of African countries. Since September 2020, after leaving NSIF, she works as independent Senior adviser and Consultant in the areas of perinatal, reproductive and global health including HIV programmes.