- Medical epidemiologist with > 20 years international experience, often as head of health programs or research units (Principal Investigator or Chief of Party USAID). - Speaks and writes fluently international languages: French, English and Spanish. - Strong background in operational research for evidence-based decisions to reduce morbidity/mortality. - Interest and experience in malaria control. |
Contact Patrice PIOLA
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Director, CEO, COP, President
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Disaster, Aid, Emergencies, Relief
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Health, Doctors, Nurses, HIV/AIDS
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Professional Experience: |
I am a Medical Doctor and epidemiologist with more than 20 years of international experience, often as head of health programs or research centers (Principal Investigator, USAID Chief of Party), mostly in Africa and Asia. I initially worked 5 years at Médecins Sans Frontières in humanitarian crisis and relief operations (Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sudan, Kosovo) , and then joined Epicentre on several outbreak investigations until 2001.
In 2002, I was assigned as Director of Epicentre Uganda to develop clinical trials. Several guideline changing clinical trials (drugs and vaccination) were designed and conducted during the 6 years I stayed in Uganda.
As Principal Investigator or co-PI to the first Artemisinin Combination Therapies trials, I contributed to the first ACT trials during pregnancy and to the Aquamat trial which results contributed to the use of artesunate as first line treatment against severe malaria. All trials were following Good Clinical Practice with external monitoring, some leading drug registration at EU level.
A 3 years experience at Oxford University (WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network) allowed me to coordinate automated systems to standardize and analyze hundreds of clinical trial datasets on antimalarial efficacy and identify determinants of resistance.
I then became the Head of the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur of Madagascar, where my unit supported the MoH in major Public Health issues with more than 20 Operational Research projects being setup in collaboration with major international agencies (including USAID, World Bank and Unicef). Targeted diseases include malaria, Mother and Child Health, non transmissible diseases, tuberculosis, malnutrition, helminthiasis, plague.
I am now the Head of Epidemiology unit at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, where I lead two large Forest Malaria Operational Research Projects. The Epidemiology Unit is involved in several research activities focused on infectious diseases: malaria, dengue, HIV, tuberculosis, Influenza virus, encephalitis virus and rabies. Our skills include surveillance, diagnosis, drug resistances, mechanisms of emergence, genetics and genomics, risk measurement and control.
In summary, I am dedicated to use epidemiology and my humanitarian background to reduce of morbidity and mortality in resource limited settings.
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Education: |
- Medical Doctor (Lyon, France) - MSc in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Trpoical Medicine, United Kingdom) - PhD in Epidemiology (Paris VI - Sorbonne, France)
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