Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Dr Fanny Nadia Dissak Delon - Participant

Harnessing Data Science to Promote Equity in Injury and Surgery for Africa (Administrator)

I am a physician with a PhD in public health and notable skills in teaching, adult learning and health project management. Presently I work as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, and as the Executive Director of D-SINE Africa (University of Buea, Cameroon), one of the members of the DS-I Africa consortium. During the past 10 years, I have worked to develop and monitor community-based infectious disease prevention and control programs, such as Maternal and Child HIV, Malaria Prevention, Vaccination (polio, measles / rubella), and Neglected Tropical Disease programs, at the regional level of Cameroon. I have also contributed in capacity building of health personnel and supervision of priority vertical programs, collaborating with respective regional coordinators/focal points in the 24 health districts and more than 1000 health facilities across Cameroon's Littoral Region. In addition to my project management skills, I have strong experience in public health research, and more specifically in trauma care research. Since 2015, I have served as a field supervisor on a multi-institutional trauma registry project that is a collaboration between the Cameroonian Ministry of Public Health and currently the UCLA Program Advancement for the Surgical Equity. In this role, I oversee all implementation and data collection activities at four hospital sites, coordinate data management, and connect the US-based research team to the local healthcare system. Conversely, the project has given me the opportunity to familiarize myself with administrative and research ethics procedures at US Universities and other institutions. In the framework of my collaboration in this study, I have presented a poster at the Congress of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS 2016), and am a co-author on several publications related to this project. Overall, I am a first-author on 3 publications and a co-author on 11 publications.