Democratic Republic of Guinea
Dr. Mandy Kader Konde
Co-principal Investigator
Fondation Santé & Développement Durable: FOSAD (Foundation for Health & Sustainable Development)
Email:kaderkonde@gmail.com
Biography: Dr. Mandy Kader Konde is co-PI and the Africa lead for the Participants’ Research Ethics Toolbox with Dr. Nouvet from Western University (Ontario, Canada). Currently a member of the Guinea COVID Scientific advisory Council, Mandy Kader has played a crucial role in the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, chairing the Guinea Ebola Research Commission. He also served as co-principal investigator for several clinical trials including the Guinea rVSV Ebola vaccine Phase 3 trial. He was co-principal investigator in the Guinea Ebola survivors long term follow up immunology study working with Public Health England (UK). He is also the Chair of the Foundation on Health & Sustainable Development (FOSAD) and Executive Director of the Center of Research on priority diseases (CEFORPAG) in Guinea Conakry, after retiring in 2012, having worked 16 years for the World Health Organization (WHO). He has over 40 years of experience cutting across academia, clinical trials, immunization and vaccine development public health management, epidemic preparedness and response.
Sékou Kouyaté
Co-principal Investigator
Fondation Santé & Développement Durable: FOSAD (Foundation for Health & Sustainable Development)
Biography: Mr. Sekou BERETE has worked for four (4) years with the Foundation on Health and Sustainable Development (FOSAD) and the Center for Excellence in Research Training on Malaria and Priority Diseases in Guinea (CEFORPAG) in the role of Financial and Administrative Coordinator. He plays an important role in the management of grants for research projects and community health. He manages human resources and finances for the operational branches of FOSAD-CEFORPAG. He has three (3) years of experience with the Harmonized Approach to Transferring Funds (HACT) within the framework of partnership in the programs of the system of the United Nations (UN), as well as having a good understanding of the management of labour relations, taxation of companies and of the particular regimes of the Organizations of the Civil Society (OSC).
Prof. Alpha Diallo
Co-investigator
Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry (Gamal Abdel Nasser University, Conakry) & Ministry of Health
Email:dalphahm@yahoo.fr
Biography: Alpha Ahmadou Diallo is a public health researcher, the head of the research department in the Strategy & Development Office at the Ministry of Health, Lecturer-Researcher at the University of Conakry, Secretary General of the Health Research Ethics Committee, and Member of the Commission researching the Ebola virus disease epidemic in Guinea.
He is a consultant in the fields of monitoring and evaluating health programs. Dr. Diallo has participated in various international research projects. He has previously collaborated and intends to develop a mutually beneficial partnership with research teams operating in African and international Institutes/Networks focused on public health issues; in particular epidemics, research ethics, community health, training, health information systems including digital systems and innovation.
Prof. Oumou Younoussa Sow
Co-investigator & Steering Committee Member
Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry (Gamal Abdel Nasser University, Conakry) & Comité national d’éthique pour la recherche en santé: CNERS (National Health Research Ethics Comittee)
Email:oumou45@yahoo.fr
Biography: Professor Oumou Younoussa Bah-Sow is a medical doctor with a speciality in pneumology and international health. She is Head of the Pneumology Unit at the Ignace Deen National Hospital. She is the President of the National Ethics Committee for Health Research in Guinea which had a pivotal role in the direction and ethical implications of Ebola research in the 2013-2015 outbreak. She is a member of the Ebola Data Access Committee. Her main research activities are focused on tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS. Professor Sow has been teaching Pneumo-phtisiology in the Faculty of Medicine since 1975. She is Head of Chair of Pneumology and member of several technical and scientific committees and commissions of the University of Conakry. Since 1992, she conducts international activities as a consultant for several agencies such as WHO, UNAIDS and several international NGOs. In 1981 she secured free TB treatment for people across Guinea and won the accession of Guinea to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) – both crucial in tackling TB across the region. In 1986, Prof Sow helped to establish the Guinea Association against Tuberculosis (AGLAT) and a National Anti-Tuberculosis Programme aimed at bringing TB treatments to rural parts of the country. She has also been instrumental in the fight against AIDS in Guinea, as the previous leader of Clinical and Epidemiology section of the National Committee to Fight Against AIDS. In 1990, she became the first Guinean woman certified to teach medicine. In 2003, she was awarded the Karel Styblo Prize (Prize given to people for their outstanding contribution to TB. In 2008, Ms. Sow received the "Medal of Female Model", given by the Guinean Ministry of Social Affairs of Women and Children in a number of women for their significant contribution to the emancipation of women and socio-economic development of Guinea. The same year, she was elevated to the rank of "Knight of the National Order of Merit" awarded by the President of the Republic of Guinea.
Maïmouna Kaba
Project Manager
Fondation Santé & Développement Durable: FOSAD (Foundation for Health & Sustainable Development)
Email: maimounakaba1994@gmail.com
Biography: I graduated with a degree in sociology of organizations and health at the General Lansana Conté University of Sonfonia in Conakry, Republic of Guinea. After my studies I had a six-month internship at UNHCR (the high commission for refugees) in the program department, during which I helped the institution carry out migration surveys on refugees.
I have been working for the sustainable development health foundation (FOSAD) for two years. I am in charge of community relations at the Kirikilan Community Polyclinic. I supervise 41 community contact points, I lead awareness-raising activities on reproductive health, family planning, gender-based violence, and others alike.
Currently, I work as an assistant project manager for the research project: "Strengthening the ethics of clinical research for participants in countries affected by the Ebola virus: a toolkit developed for and with potential research participants."
Aboubacar Finando
Development Committee Member
Criox Rouge, Guinée
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Daouda Mamadouba Sylla
Development Committee Member
Centre d'éducation et de formation des jeunes (CEFOJ) de la Commune de Dixinn (Youth education and training centre, Dixinn Commune)
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Facinet Bangoura
Development Committee Member
Réseau National des Associations de Survivants d’Ebola de Guinée: RENASEG (National Network of Ebola Survivors’ Associations, Guinea)
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Fanta Cherif
Development Committee Member
Réseau National des Associations de Survivants d’Ebola de Guinée: RENASEG (National Network of Ebola Survivors’ Associations, Guinea)
Email: guinee.cdm@alima.ngo
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Ousmane Soumah
Development Committee Member
Radio FM Coyah
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Soriba Carnara
Development Committee Member
Réseau National des Associations de Survivants d’Ebola de Guinée: RENASEG (National Network of Ebola Survivors’ Associations, Guinea)
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Dr. Billy Sivahera
Development Committee Member
ALIMA (Alliance for International Medical Action)
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Dr. Diallo Mamadou Oury
Steering Committee Member
Réseau National des Associations de Survivants d’Ebola de Guinée: RENASEG (National Network of Ebola Survivors’ Associations, Guinea)
Email: oury1986@gmail.com
Biography: Dr. Diallo Mamadou Oury is President of the Guinean National Association for Ebola Survivors (Réseau National des Associations des Survivants d’Ebola de Guinée - RENASEG). He is a graduated in Medicine from Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry and has been interested in qualitative and clinical research since his student days. In 2012 he supported a study ''The management of early postoperative complications of appendectomies in the general surgery department of Ignace Deen National Hospital,” assisting in the consent of participants. In 2016, he became President of the Ebola Survivors' Association in Matoto Commune and organized and led numerous workshops and seminars on the management of sepsis and the management of potentially endemic diseases. The sensitization and mobilization of survivors and their family members to participate in research is a major concern for Dr. Diallo, in particular with respect to the collection of seminal and bodily fluids and inquiries into the sexual behavior of participants. Dr Diallo is motivated to contribute to the PRET project, since it will allow the RENASEG and its members develop tools to support decision-making about participating, or not, in research. The project resonates with his goal of contributing to local communities’ capacity to meet their own public health needs.
Dr. Balla Moussa Kéita
Logistical & Administrative Support
Fondation Santé & Développement Durable: FOSAD (Foundation for Health & Sustainable Development)
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Biography: My name is KEITA Balla Moussa and I am a general practitioner with almost four years experience in community and clinical healthcare, as well as in research. I am currently Director of the Modern Community Polyclinic (PCM) of Kirikilan Dubréka-Guinea, one of the branches of the Center for Training and Research on Malaria and Priority Diseases in Guinea (CEFORPAG) and of the Foundation on Health and Sustainable Development (FOSAD). I am a researcher/consultant for the Toolbox (PRET). I bring to this project: Three (3) years of experience in Community Health with FOSAD and UNFPA: ü Socio-demographic monitoring, mapping and enumeration of target populations: children under 5, pregnant woman and of childbearing age (October 2018); ü Improvement of service supply and demand at the community level in the Kirikilan District (2019) ü Instructor and field coordinator of awareness campaigns and target group activities on the themes: Covid 2019, Gender-based violence, family planning and obstetric fistula of the 45 community initiatives in several neighborhoods (2020). Three (3) years of research experience: ü Co-investigator of the longitudinal study of Ebola virus disease survivors in Guinea with FOSAD-CEFORPAG and Public Health of England (3-year cohort) ü Supervisor of the students leaving the faculty of medicine and pharmacy who are writing their doctoral thesis (initiation to research) received as intern at CEFORPAG. ü Most recently in January 2021, he was a field investigator on behalf of CEFORPAG in the Forest Guinea region (Lola Prefecture), for the detection of antibodies to the Ebola virus and SARScov-2 through sampling of oral fluid.
Richard Amento Ablam
Logistical & Administrative Support
Fondation Santé & Développement Durable: FOSAD (Foundation for Health & Sustainable Development)
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Biography: Amento Ablam provides general logistical support to the Participants’ Research Ethics Toolbox project. He holds a license in professional hygiene and sanitation, and has more than six (6) years of experience with hands on research, community health, hospital logistics and hospital hygiene. On a day-to-day basis, Amento is responsible for the operations and logistics of the foundation on health and sustainable development (FOSAD) and of the Research Center of Priority Illnesses in Guinea (CEFORPAG). He is the project coordinator ensuring continued services for sexual and reproductive health involving family planning during COVID-19 TAKEDA (FOSAD) for the city of Conakry. At the same time, he is the project coordinator for the ‘Citizen Engagement Initiative (IEC)’ to advocate towards policy makers and decision makers in power creating legal manuscripts relating to matters of sexual and reproductive health (DSSR) in Guinea, in 2020. He played a big role in the clinical research of 2014-2016, specifically the clinical trials of interferon, Ebosex, EVIDENT and SUIVEBOV in Guinea.
Sékou Bérété
Logistical & Administrative Support
Fondation Santé & Développement Durable: FOSAD (Foundation for Health & Sustainable Development)
Email: sekouberete28@gmail.com
Biography: Mr. Sekou BERETE has worked for four (4) years with the Foundation on Health and Sustainable Development (FOSAD) and the Center for Excellence in Research Training on Malaria and Priority Diseases in Guinea (CEFORPAG) in the role of Financial and Administrative Coordinator. He plays an important role in the management of grants for research projects and community health. He manages human resources and finances for the operational branches of FOSAD-CEFORPAG. He has three (3) years of experience with the Harmonized Approach to Transferring Funds (HACT) within the framework of partnership in the programs of the system of the United Nations (UN), as well as having a good understanding of the management of labour relations, taxation of companies and of the particular regimes of the Organizations of the Civil Society (OSC).
