{"id":632,"date":"2023-04-04T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=our_fellows&#038;p=632"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:52:01","slug":"chrystelle-wedi","status":"publish","type":"our_fellows","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/chrystelle-wedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrystelle Wedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Dr. Wedi was born in the DRC and moved to South Africa when she was 7 years old. She is a medical doctor and Rhodes Scholar currently enrolled for a DPhil in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Oxford University, where she investigates the effects of maternal HIV-infection and antiretroviral therapy on birth outcomes. She is the co-founder of the Ono Mtoto Wako (See your baby) social initiative designed to offer free ultrasonography services through a mobile clinic. In addition, she is the Secretary General of Vandelo, an NGO based in the DRC, which establishes medical facilities for women and children residing in low-income communities and a co-managing partner of Watoto Hospital &amp; Karibuni Hospital (DRC). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">She is currently a medical doctor maintaining a variety of expertise in maternal &amp; child health, infectious diseases, public health, and health financing. <\/span><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">She received her PhD from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and is also a Public Health Specialist at the World Bank Group. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","focus_area":[95],"expertise":[154,111,115],"class_list":["post-632","our_fellows","type-our_fellows","status-publish","hentry","focus_area-health","expertise-child-health","expertise-infectious-diseases","expertise-maternal-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our_fellows"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus_area?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertise?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}