Jean Bernard Ndayishimiye | Global Health Corps

Jean Bernard Ndayishimiye

Jean Bernard

Co-fellow

Magdalena

Magdalena Wilson

Placement Country: Rwanda
Title: Program Coordinator
Health equity mean the attainment of the highest level of health for all people and efforts to ensure that all people have full and equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives regardless their socio-economic status.

Jean Bernard Ndayishimiye is from Kigali, Rwanda. He attended the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Rwanda where he majored in agriculture and minored in food science and technology. Jean Bernard also received a Chinese Government Scholarship for a master’s program in food science and technology at Jiangnan University. Through Global Fund Project, he coordinated a subproject which aimed to ameliorate the nutrition status of people living with HIV and children under the age of five. He also served as a research associate at Jiangnan University, operations manager of FarmFresh Food Company, and assistant lecturer of nutrition at the Eden Institute in Lusaka, Zambia. Before joining GHC, Jean Bernard worked with Catholic University of Rwanda as visiting lecturer of nutrition.