About Us

HEADA is an African-based non-for-profit organization whose mission is to support global health and development programs. Our domain of intervention include human, animal and environmental health (One Health); field epidemiology and training; laboratory system strengthening (microbiology, virology, LIS and management); global health security and emerging infectious diseases management; health system strengthening (HSS); social behavior change (SBC); clinical research; health information systems (HIS); humanitarian actions; program and finance management; water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH); agricultural engineering; community development and poverty alleviation (community empowerment); communication; education sciences and innovation for health and sustainable development.

Our headquarters is in Yaoundé, Cameroon, managed under the leadership of local national experts who have been leading programs in the Central and West Africa regions (formerly with Metabiota, Inc.), including over $50.5M in US government grants and contracts executed over the past two decades. Our Cameroon and Sierra Leone offices as well as our local partner organization GIReD in DRC have over two decades experience managing and leading implementation of US funded projects as well as have long-lasting collaborative experience working with the local government ministries (health, Defense, Livestock, Environment, Forestry and Wildlife, and Scientific Research, etc.). Our humanitarian representation office in Belgium oversees funds raising and partnerships building in Europe, America, and Asia toward supporting humanitarian interventions in Africa.