Professor Adama Faye

Adama Faye is the Director of the Institute for Health and Development in Senegal which helps the Ministry of Health to plan, implement and evaluate the intervention for improving the health. Prof Faye also the Head of Public Health service and research support at the Fann University Hospital Center, President of the Advisory Committee for monitoring and evaluation of the National AIDS Council in Senegal and Member of the Board African One Health University Network (AFROHUN). Prof Faye teaches research methodology at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He participated in the setting up of several surveillance systems, in particular within the framework of the rural UCAD for which he is responsible for setting up a human and animal health surveillance system through the Observatory for Human and Animal Health in Niakhène (OSHAN).

Prof Faye trained as medical doctor with a degree from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, and holds a Master’s degrees in Statistics and Methodology of Biomedical Research and completed a Doctoral Program in Epidemiology at the University of Montréal, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Health and Population Support in sub-Saharan Africa.

In collaboration with the IRD, Prof Faye has set up a National COVID-19 Observatory in Senegal and supported the Ministry of Health in the assessment of the preparedness and response to COVID-19.