Pat Sadate-Ngatchou, PhD, MPH, is a life scientist and global health executive with more than 20 years of experience leading life sciences, public health, and health security programs across 40+ countries in the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Europe. She has directed multi-million-dollar initiatives supported by partners such as CDC, USAID, the Global Fund, BMGF, NIH, DTRA, and UKHSA, advancing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and infectious disease surveillance, pandemic preparedness, maternal and child health, and health systems strengthening through evidence driven, One Health, and locally led approaches.
At EVIHDAF, Dr. Pat Sadate Ngatchou leads the organisation’s strategic pivot toward Global Health Security, heading a multidisciplinary team of national and international experts that mobilises specialised technical capacity across the region and globally. Under her leadership, the GHS pillar operationalises the “Prevent, Detect, Respond” framework, strengthening surveillance and laboratory systems, advancing One Health approaches (AMR and zoonotic threats), bolstering emergency response and workforce development, and integrating digital health, MEAL, and policy support to enhance health system resilience. Dr. Sadate Ngatchou’s stewardship positions EVIHDAF to respond rapidly to diverse GHS priorities while ensuring interventions are evidence driven, locally led, and aligned with emerging bilateral and multilateral cooperation frameworks.
Pat is the Founder and Principal Consultant of PNP AHEAD and previously served as Global Health Security Director at Jacobs, as a Program Director/Associate Director at FHI 360, and Sr Laboratory Advisor at I-TECH where she led work spanning biosurveillance and laboratory systems strengthening. As a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington, she designs and teaches graduate-level training in global health, monitoring and evaluation, and health security, while mentoring the next generation of public health leaders. Pat is fluent in English and French and holds a PhD in Biochemistry and an MPH in Epidemiology, with additional training and research experience in clinical and life sciences.
