Bassirou Bonfoh, Director Afrique One
Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS)
Bassirou holds a DVM and a PhD in epidemiology. He worked between 1995-2000 in West Africa for Vétérinaires Sans Frontières. He went in 2000-2004 for epidemiology postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Swiss TPH. He led between 2004 and 2008, a research group in Africa and Asia to promote the One Health (OH) approach in pastoral livestock production system with a focus on animal source food safety. Between 2009 and 2018, he was the managing Director of CSRS in the area of transdisciplinary research, research capacity building and science partnerships and diplomacy. Since 2009 to date, he is the Director of Afrique One a leading African research capacity building program in One Health. After his sabbatical in Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan (2018), he has contributed to expand the One Health approach to non-communicable diseases with a focus on human lifestyle and behavior change. Bassirou is a guest lecturer at University of Liège (Belgium), University of Kara and Lomé (Togo) and at the veterinary school (Senegal) where he chairs the scientific advisory board. He is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. He advises ECOWAS in the OH coordination mechanism.