# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-n-nkengasong
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:18:28.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-n-nkengasong"
name: "John N. Nkengasong"
slug: "john-n-nkengasong"
description: "John N. Nkengasong is a Cameroonian-American virologist who served as the Global AIDS Coordinator in the Biden administration from 2022 to 2025 and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy from 2023 to 2025. He previously worked as the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2022, as well as at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nkengasong was appointed the WHO Special Envoy for Africa."
tagline: "Cameroonian virologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_N._Nkengasong%2C_U.S._Global_AIDS_Coordinator.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             2.269224671000476
  historical:           4.815444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Nkengasong"
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    title: "John Nkengasong"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nkengasong"
    title: "John Nkengasong"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92"
    title: "ג'ון נקנגאסונג"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump