Professor Ibrahima Seck is a Colonel-Doctor, specializing in Public Health, Chairholder, and Head of the Preventive Medicine and Public Health Department at the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal.
He holds a medical degree (FMPO/UCAD Senegal), a certificate in Public Health specialization (ISED/UCAD, Senegal), a Master’s in International Development, and a PhD (Tulane University, New Orleans, USA). He is also a Full Professor (CAMES, 2012) and has nearly thirty years of experience in public health. His areas of expertise include the management and administration of health services and programs, health planning, monitoring and evaluation, logistics management of medicines and products, community health, and epidemiology. He has conducted numerous consultations with WHO, RBM, UNICEF WCARO, the World Bank, USAID, Oxford, WAHO, etc., in the context of health project and program evaluation, mid-term reviews, and the development of national strategic plans, as well as the preparation of national funding requests to be submitted to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Before joining the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry at UCAD, Professor SECK served as District Health Officer, Coordinator of the National Tuberculosis Control Program in Senegal, Technical Advisor No. 1, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Health and Social Action of Senegal, and Technical Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal.
Professor SECK has produced nearly a hundred publications in national and international journals, and his work has been presented at numerous scientific conferences and meetings around the world.
He is the Secretary General of the Galien Africa Association, Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Galien Africa Forum and the Galien Africa Prize, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Galien Africa Prize. He is also a member of several learned societies, including the Senegalese Society of Public Health Professionals, the African Public Health Society, and the French Public Health Society.
