0000-0002-2870-1170 About
As an experienced university teacher, researcher, and administrator, Professor Jean-Baptiste KAKOMA (MD, Kinshasa / 1975; MMed, Kisangani / 1981; PhD, Louvain / 1987; and AESM Antwerp / 1987) has a combination of leadership, research, and management skills. He started his scientific and academic career in 1975 and has held increasingly responsible academic and management positions in health science programs at university level in two out of the 3 DR Congo public universities, i.e. Kisangani and Lubumbashi. He has been ordinary professor of public health, obstetrics and gynecology, demography, and parasitology, director of teaching hospital in Kisangani and Lubumbashi, dean of faculty of medicine in Lubumbashi, and rector of the University of Lubumbashi (Katanga Province, 1997 – 2001). He has written many books, published many scientific articles, and supervised many dissertations and theses (MD, MSc, MMed, and PhD) relating to different medical fields (public health / epidemiology and reproductive health, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, pediatrics, medical biology, ophthalmology, and medical imaging) in the two DRC universities and at National University of Rwanda. He is member of many scientific associations (DR Congolese Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, DR Congolese Society of Surgery, Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine, Belgian Society of Parasitology, Francophone Society of Protozoology, European Academy of Sciences and Letters, Rwandan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rwandan Association of Public Health). He has been vice dean for postgraduate studies and research at National University of Rwanda (2005 – 2008) and organized in this position the two first PhD presentations in Rwanda (PhD in Medical and Biomedical Sciences in partnership with Gent University and “Université Libre de Belgique”), and two international conferences on cancers and diabetes. At that time he supervised research on cervix and breast cancers, trophoblastic cancer and diabetes in pregnancy. He has been Director of the National University of Rwanda School of Public Health (2008 – 2013) and is now Dean of the University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences School of Public Health, Professor of Quality Assurance in Healthcare, Introduction to Public Health and Scientific Writing, WHO / Africa expert within the Task Force on Immunization (TFI), Rwanda Co-applicant for the THRiVE Consortium (Welcome Trust funding), and former Director of the Field Epidemiology Programme in Rwanda (partnership AFENET / CDC-Atlanta). He has been granted an Academic Residency Award by the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio Center on Resilience and Health System Strengthening in DR Congo (November – December 2013). He is now PI of two research projects in the Southern Province of Rwanda (1. Cervix Cancer and HIV & HPV; 2. Manual Method of CD4+ count), and Co – Investigator of research projects on Hypertension and Diabetes Type 1 in Rwanda.
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