Diagnostics access coordinator at Africa CDC and research fellow at LSHTM. Holds an MD (Doctor of Medicine) degree from the University of Buea, Cameroon, a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Glasgow, UK and a Doctor of Public Health(Dr.PH) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine(LSHTM). . Completed a fellowship in infectious disease diagnostics at the Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Seconded to Africa CDC he leads the Africa Collaborative Initiative to Advance Diagnostics (AFCAD). He is responsible for local manufacturing of diagnostics, biobanking, diagnostics development and evaluation, regulation through streamlining regulatory harmonization processes in collaboration with the AMDF and AMRH programme of AUDA NEPAD. He is also responsible for leading the engagements with policy makers to ensure diagnostic access policies are developed, adopted and implemented by African countries.

Noah is now mainly based at the Africa CDC HQ, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he is working with relevant partners to establish a continental regulatory pathway for Africa that will accelerate access to diagnostics to safeguard the health of Africans. As part of this work, he co-led the establishment of the Africa Biobanking Network and led the establishment of the Diagnostics Advisory Committee (DAC).

As research fellow at LSHTM since 2016, Noah has co-directed courses on diagnostics for AMR, lectured in the NTD module, and facilitated the pandemic course at LSHTM. He has been PI and co-PI for grants. Currently, he is co-PI for an NIHR grant to develop diagnostics for vaccine preventable respiratory diseases.

He has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed publications and book chapters.