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Biography
Grace Kodindo (born 1960) is a Chadian obstetrician-gynecologist.
Life
She attended undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Montreal.
She was head of the maternity unit at the Central Hospital in N'Djamena for many years. In 2000 she became the president of the Chadian Association of Gynecologists, and was given the FIGO/Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Distinguished Community Service Award for Emergency Obstetric Care for her work. A few years later she became a faculty member of the Mailman School of Public Health. Some of her work was featured in a 2005 BBC film, titled Dead Mums Don’t Cry. Hope for Grace Kodindo, a nonprofit, was created to raise money for women's health problems in Africa due to people being inspired by her work.
She subsequently started working as a chief advisor for the Reproductive Health Access, Information, and Services in Emergency Settings (RAISE) Initiative. In 2009 she was part of a program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo dispensing services for reproductive health; her work there was featured in the BBC documentary Grace Under Fire.