Current Position
Regional Emergency Director, WHO
Background
Dr Abdou Salam Gueye is the Regional Emergency Director, with expertise in health security, emergency outbreak response, epidemiology, use of information technology in global health and health system strengthening. He previously was the WHO Representative for Mauritania. Prior to joining WHO, he worked for the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for more than a decade in a variety of capacities, including as the Field Response Lead during the West Africa Ebola epidemic, Benin Country Representative, Strategic Information Officer in the Atlanta headquarters, Associate Director for Science in Cote d’Ivoire and Director of the Global Health Protection Program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Achievements
He is co-founder and editorial board member of the Pan African Medical Journal and founded the Institut Mere Enfant de Kaolack.
Education
Dr Gueye holds a medical doctorate and master’s degree in public health from the University of Dakar and a PhD in biomedical informatics from the University of Utah in the United States.
