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Matilda Kerry is a Nigerian physician, [1] tv host and beauty pageant titleholder. She currently a co-host on the Nigerian version of The Doctors . She first achieved national fame as the winner of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2000. [2]

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Education

Kerry attended Federal Girls College, Benin, where she obtained her WAEC certificate. Following her secondary education, she gained admission into the University of Lagos to study Medicine and Surgery. She also holds a master's degree in public health, is a member of the West African College of Public Health Physicians, and a Sexuality Leadership Development Fellow. [3]

Pageants

In 2000, shortly after winning Miss Surulere, Kerry was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, making her Nigeria's [4] Miss World and Miss Universe representative. In 2001, she crowned her successor Agbani Darego who went on to become Miss World later that year. [5] She worked as a model between 2000 and 2006. [6]

Career

Kerry graduated from the University of Lagos in 2006, and now practices medicine, specialising in community medicine. She is president of the George Kerry Life foundation, [7] a foundation that gives awareness about non-communicable diseases (NCD's). [8] [9]

She is part of the Young African Leaders Initiative, a flagship program of President Barack Obama. In 2016, she was a Mandela Washington fellow, where she joined 1000 other young African leaders in Washington DC for the Presidential summit in 2016 to strategise on moving Africa forward. [10]

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  2. ↑ "Search | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  3. ↑ "Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship". www.arsrc.org. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  4. ↑ "Nigeria". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  5. ↑ "Terra - Notícias, esportes, coberturas ao vivo, diversão e estilo de vida". Terra (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  6. ↑ Matilda's modelling page
  7. ↑ "Dr. Matilda Kerry | Docsays". www.docsays.com. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  8. ↑ I am not conscious of fashion –Matilda Kerry Archived 2012-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ "GEORGE KERRY LIFE FOUNDATION". GEORGE KERRY LIFE FOUNDATION. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
  10. ↑ "Matilda Nkechiye Kerry". IREX. Retrieved 2017-08-29.
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