Matilda Kerry
Matilda Kerry is a Nigerian physician, television host and beauty pageant titleholder. She currently a co-host on the Nigerian version of The Doctors.[citation needed]
Education
[edit | edit source]Kerry attended Federal Girls College, Benin, where she obtained her WAEC certificate. Following her secondary education, she gained admission into the University of Lagos to study Medicine and Surgery. She also holds a master's degree in public health, is a member of the West African College of Public Health Physicians, and a Sexuality Leadership Development Fellow.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Kerry graduated from the University of Lagos in 2006, and now practices medicine, specialising in community medicine. She is president of the George Kerry Life foundation,[2] a foundation that gives awareness about non-communicable diseases (NCD's).[3][4]
She is part of the Young African Leaders Initiative, a flagship program of President Barack Obama. In 2016, she was a Mandela Washington fellow, where she joined 1000 other young African leaders in Washington DC for the Presidential summit in 2016 to strategise on moving Africa forward.[5]
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- 21st-century Nigerian medical doctors
- Living people
- Miss Universe 2000 contestants
- Miss World 2000 delegates
- Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria winners
- Nigerian public health doctors
- Nigerian women medical doctors
- University of Lagos alumni
- 21st-century women physicians
- Women public health doctors
- Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria contestants