Current Position
Program Leader of the Epidemic intelligence and Outbreak Response unit at Institute Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) and the coordinator of the extension of the Syndromic Sentinel Surveillance in West Africa
Background
I am a trained medical doctor, with postgraduate training in project management, epidemiology and control of infectious diseases.
Experience
I previously served the WHO Regional Office for Africa as Incident Manager during the West African Ebola outbreak in Guinea (2014-2017), the Pulmonary Plaque outbreak response in Madagascar (2017-2018), the 9th and 10th Ebola outbreak responses in DRC (2018-2020). I worked with CDC Atlanta on Polio eradication in Guinea, MSF Canada on Malnutrition in Niger, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on HIV in Abuja, Nigeria, and the Carter Center on Guinea Worm eradication in Mali. I have experience working in ten (10) countries with more than (twenty) 20 years of national and international experience in developing nations, conflict zones, and fragile states.
Education
I did my master in Control of Infectious Disease at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; I did a Diploma in Project Management at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; I did a Certificate in Coordination and Implementation of Clinical Research, Overview of Research Methods and Regulatory Processes in Clinical Research, and Overview of Clinical Site Operations and Management at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.
