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Rtn. Dr. Stella Anyangwe

District Governor (RID 9400)

Prof. Stella Anyangwe, MD, MPH, PhD, Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Global

Health Expert, is a member of the RC Pretoria West, D9400. She was Honorary
Professor at the School of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health
Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, from 2014-2017, after
retiring from the World Health Organization.

Prof. Anyangwe retired from the World Health (Rotarians for Family Health and AIDS prevention), a
Organization in April 2013, after 17 years of service to Rotary Action Group. She became a Paul Harris
the Organization Fellow in 2001, contributing towards education in
honour of her mother, a devoted early child
For 13 years (1998-2011) she was WHO Country
educator who died in 2000. She’s now PHF+1.
Representative in four countries in the African Region
Rotarian Stella has been a Rotary Club member in
(Seychelles, Mali, Zambia and South Africa
Zambia, Congo, Nigeria, Seychelles, Mali and South
Education:obtained MPH (1986) and PhD (1990) Africa.
degrees in Epidemiology at Tulane University, New
In Rotary, her passion has been Membership,Shehas
Orleans, USA. Had medical degree (MD in 1977) and
been club president, Assistant Governor,and
was a practicing physician and resident
presently DG of District 9400 in 2021-22. She is the first
nephrologist in Cameroon before going international
BLACK WOMAN DG IN THE 100 YEARS OF ROTARY IN
Prof Anyangwe continues to serve the African SOUTH AFRICA!
continent and the world at large as pro bono
Rotarian Stella is married to Prof Carl Anyangwe, an
member of international health NGOs.
International Human Rights Lawyer and retired Rector
Rotarian Stella Anyangwe had been a Rotarian since of Walter Sisulu University, Butterworth Campus. He
1995, In 1998, she became a Life Member of RFFA too is a Rotarian and PHF. They have two adult
(Rotarians for Fighting AIDS), now called RFHA married children living in Europe.

Be optimistic

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s
feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would
not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”

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