Francis Kateh

Francis N. Kateh, born in 1965 in Karlokeh, Maryland County, is a Liberian physician and academic whose career spans hospital medicine in Liberia and public health administration in the United States. He began his medical training as a volunteer at the Ganta United Methodist Hospital, studied at the University of Liberia and then in the United States, and took his medical degree at Spartan University School of Medicine in St. Lucia. He returned to Liberia during the First Liberian Civil War and served there for the United Methodist Church for more than six years, as chief medical officer of the Ganta hospital and its head of surgery. Back in the United States he earned a master of health administration and a master of professional studies in homeland security leadership with an emphasis on public health disaster preparedness. He has served as public health director of Anson County, North Carolina since 2004 and has taught health care law, ethics and international health policy as an adjunct professor.