Strategic Prioritied

For more than 25 years, the HEADA’s lead experts and promoters have, under various local and international organizations, conducted research and delivered solutions that address critical health and development issues and improve lives around the world.

Our work allows governments and their populations and communities, to better plan and address health and development priority issues and needs for their futures. We help people avoid infectious diseases (e.g. HIV infection and access life-saving HIV services, zoonotic diseases. etc). We help empower girls to protect themselves and have a say in their own lives, help alleviate poverty and suffering in underserved populations and communities affected by humanitarian crisis. We also help sustain development in communities.

Our health and development actions target West and Central Africa countries with the head office located in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

We collaborate with governments and civil society organizations to understand and overcome obstacles to health and development. We partner with policymakers and donors to help inform global, national, and local policies with evidence.

HEADA’s mission is to build a strong ownership and capacity for a sustainable presence and continuation of country indigenous leadership in the field of public health interventions, research and development based on long-term experience of its promoters working in these fields with international and local organizations and stakeholders. Its goal is to improve the well-being of current and future generations and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources

• Respecting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights
• Enhancing gender equality
• Empowering vulnerable populations
• Collaborating with partners around the world to develop research capacity and achieve our common mission
• Ensuring that data and evidence are used to inform policies and programs to improve lives around the world
• Adhering to legal, ethical, and prudent operational and risk-management practices in the performance of all activities