Prof. Gottlieb Lobe Monekosso is a revered figure in the international health sector. This Cameroonian medical doctor, former Health Minister, Emeritus Director of WHO for Africa, founding Dean of the University Centre for Health Sciences, CUSS, and the President of Global Health Dialogue Foundation seems to have seen and had it all in the health domain. Recently, he had another distinction from the prestigious Royal Society of Public Health, christened Queen Elizabeth II Gold Medal Award.