
Christian Akem Dimala was selected as one of the 10 New Voices in Global Health (NVGH) in 2016 by the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres, Universities and National Academies to showcase his research work at the 2016 World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany.
This held under the high patronage of the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, the President of France Francois Hollande, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, and in the presence of several European and African ministers of Health and Foreign Affaires, WHO regional directors, renown researchers, academicians, clinicians and many others.
With the aim to empower research, policy and advocacy initiatives among future leaders in global health, he was given the opportunity to present his work under the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which was centered on the synergistic association between communicable and non-communicable diseases and more precisely on the Association between Antiretroviral therapy, hypertension and diabetes risk.