Emeline Joyce Ngaha Dingue

Emeline Joyce Ngaha Dingue is a Cameroonian public health practitioner and Mastercard Foundation Scholar at the University of Oxford pursuing an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine. She is a member of Wolfson College.

Joyce’s commitment to health equity is rooted in her upbringing in a high-density area of Yaoundé, Cameroon, where inadequate infrastructure shaped her understanding of health disparities. She has since led health programmes across Africa and Asia, focusing on co-creating community-based solutions for vulnerable populations.

In the Philippines, Joyce managed the health component of two integrated projects, jointly valued at 4 million pesos, which supported over 1,000 families through health, education, and livelihood interventions. She designed monitoring and evaluation plans, trained more than 100 community health volunteers, and partnered with the Department of Health to ensure projects’ sustainability. In Cameroon, she currently leads a WASH initiative with African Leadership for Infrastructure and is the founder of Safe Space: The Care Shop, a youth mental health initiative supported by a $10,000 Mastercard Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Fund award.

Joyce has also contributed to health systems in Zimbabwe, where she supported paediatric blood culture diagnostics at the country’s largest hospital and conducted quality assurance testing with the National Blood Services. Her final-year research on Salmonella typhi among food handlers was undertaken to improve national surveillance efforts.

She holds certifications in Basic Life Support, project management, and international disaster relief. At Oxford, Joyce aims to deepen her capacity to design and scale impactful public health programmes. Her long-term goal is to improve health outcomes for at least 1 million socio-economically challenged individuals worldwide.