Dr Magaran Monzon Bagayoko has been appointed as the WHO
Representative to Gabon. He is from Mali and he was formerly acting
Director, Communicable Diseases Cluster, AFRO. Dr Magaran Monzon
Bagayoko is from the first generation of the researchers trained by the
Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC), since it’s opening in 1991.
He
began his career as an entomologist at the MRTC in 1991 in the
laboratory of Prof. Yaya Toure, then Head of Unit of the Geographical
Information System (GIS) and Telemanagement at the Malaria Research and
Training Center (MRTC), FMPOS before joining the WHO in Gabon since
2003.
At WHO he held several positions as
Environmental Health Advisor and then Team Leader of the Public Health
and Environment Program (PHE) at the WHO Regional Office for Africa
until his recent appointment as a WHO representative in Gabon. Dr.
Bagayoko holds a Master’s degree in Biology (1988), a Ph.D in
Parasitology-Entomology at ISFRA Bamako (2000) and has completed
post-doc training in Environmental Epidemiology University of Greenwich,
United Kingdom (2002).
He has completed
several courses in Geographic Information System (GIS), Spatial Analysis
and Risk Modeling of Communicable Diseases at NASA (USA) in 1998, at
the Medical Research Council, University of Durban, South Africa (2198)
and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Health, Liverpool, UK
(1999). He also holds certificates in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins
University (USA).
This nomination honors our country and especially our universities and research centers.
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