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DOMINIQUE KEROUEDAN, B.A. LAW, M.D., M.P.H, Msc., Ph.D DOMINIQUE KEROUEDAN, B.A. LAW, M.D., M.P.H, MSc., Ph.D Currently Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Medicine in France (since 2017) Elected Professor- Chair “Knowledge against Poverty”- Collège de France1- (2012-2013) Currently Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Overseas in France (since 2016) Founder, Lecturer and Scientific Adviser: Concentration in Global Health, Sciences Po Paris Faculty Member, Paris School of International Affairs-Institute of Political Studies2 National Health Medal, Algiers, 2004 Profile Trained in Medicine, Epidemiology, Mental Health and Public Health, Pandemics management and Tropical Diseases, Philosophy, International Public Law, European Institutions, Political Science and International Relations, Human Rights WorK experience: Over 30 year-experience in the field of Health situation analysis and national responses, policies and systems in developing countries, particularly the poorest countries in Africa (Sahelian countries and Madagascar). Excellent knowledge in Global Health History and Policy MaKing, Strategies and Governance, Institutions and Overseas Development Aid over the last 60 years. Currently Member of the Covid-19 Pandemic Surveillance WorKing Group at the National Academy of Medicine in France and coordinator of the “Africa Group” of this surveillance working group at the Academy. Lecturer, Founder and Scientific Adviser of the Concentration in Global Health at the Paris School of International Affairs-Sciences Po Member of the Board of the University of Senghor, Alexandrie, Egypt Judge Assessor appointed by United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) at the National Court of Asylum Right in France (Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA)) Member of Paris Bar Solidarity Foundation Steering Committee Medical Doctor specialized in Public Health and Social Medicine, worKing in 2 Health Centres at La République, offering health services to street people, drug users and migrants, Paris 1 https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/dominique-kerouedan/index.htm 2 http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/content/global-health-concentration Elected President of La Cimade Luxembourg Local Group in Paris 2018- 2019; volunteering assisting asylum seekers through their procedure in France (May 2017-September 2017) Independent Expert in International Health and Development Nationality French List of countries with worK experience: Algeria, Morocco, Columbia, Pakistan (Afghan Refugees), Thailand (Burmese Karen Refugees), Rwanda, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Niger, BurKina Faso, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Central African Republic, Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Eritrea, Madagascar, The French West Indies and the English-speaKing CARICOM countries (Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago) Long-term residence countries: Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, the United Kingdom, Rwanda, Pakistan, Thailand, Guadeloupe (French-West Indies), the United States of America, Madagascar, Belgium, France Countries visited: Burundi, Jordan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, South Africa, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, USA, Brazil, French- West Indies (La Dominique, Saint Bath, Saint Martin), Leeward Islands (Antigua and Barbuda), Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Israel (Holy Land) Member of the Scientific Committee of the following organizations: - Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po - Concentration in Global Health (refer to academic experience below) - Member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Health and Climate Change to be held in Paris for the 100th Anniversary of the International federation of the Red Cross Societies and the Red Crescent (April 2019). - Le Fonds (de dotation) Croix Rouge Française- 2012-2017. Overseeing research work on Humanitarian and social development work, at the request of the former Minister of Health in France and former President of the Croix Rouge Française, for almost 10 years, Professor Jean-François Mattei. - NY Columbia University and the Earth Institute- 2012. Sciences Po Paris. Member of the Health Science Committee for the curriculum development of the “Health Sciences” core competencies of the Master of Development Practice (MDP) launched at Sciences Po Paris with NY Columbia University and the Earth Institute support - The French-Swedish Prize for Young Researchers with the Collège de France. Chair of the Jury for the selection of doctoral and post doc students in Sweden to be given a scholarship to study in France (2013) - ACROPOLIS- Belgian Technical Cooperation for development, Proposal Reviewer in the area of Aid effectiveness - The Health Africa Forum (May 2014 in Geneva)- - FACTS Initiative- FACTS Reports, a journal for a development actors’ science Summary of work experience Dominique Kerouedan grew up and went to school in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, UK and France, thus experiencing from a young age the differences between many cultures and learning how to adapt to very different contexts and people, such as West Africa and London in the sixties. She was Brought up and educated both by her French parents and a British grandmother married to her grandfather after World War II. She then studied Medicine in Paris, PuBlic Health in the United States (UC Berkeley), Law 2 in the West Indies, and then, back in France, completed another doctorate in Health Sciences (Epidemiology and PuBlic Health) while she was working at country level in ABidjan on the limitations of HIV/AIDS international strategies in West Africa in the nineties. Speaking and writing French (fluently), English (fluently) and Spanish (to a certain extent), her career can be summarized in 4 areas (see detailed missions and tasks thereafter): (1) Humanitarian aid, as a medical doctor in Refugee Camps in Pakistan (Afghan refugees) and Thailand (Karen refugees), as well as caring for street children and adolescent detainees (Madagascar), providing care for rural populations in Rwanda, or planning maternal and child health interventions for Afghan populations in Peshawar (working with NGOs); (2) Epidemiology, as public health a researcher in GaBon (Franceville CIRMF Research Center), Congo (Brazzaville Blood Bank), and the French West Indies (INSERM), studying HIV transmission via blood, sexual contact and maternal transmission at the very Beginning of the pandemic in Africa and the Caribbean islands (with research institutions); (3) Overseas development aid project and program manager, as a Technical Adviser on a long- term basis, in Côte d’Ivoire (6 years) and Madagascar (3 years), respectively to the National AIDS/STI/TB Control Director in Abidjan (national level), and to the Regional Health Director in Tuléar (Southern Madagascar 21 districts), as to implement joined HIV/AIDS and health systems strengthening projects funded By the French technical cooperation and the European Commission (with the French Government and EU institutions); (4) International aid strategies and policies evaluation, as an independent Expert in International Health and Global health (for over 15 years) analyzing the contribution to Health and Development and to the implementation of Health MDGs of the following institutions: UN agencies (UNAIDS, UNDP, WHO), France Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Agence Française de développement and ESTHER/MOH France, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the USAID, PEPFAR, the German Technical cooperation, etc. over the period 2000-2016 (detailed trip mission tasks and countries visited are outlined below). (5) currently working as a Medical Doctor specialized in Public Health and Social Medicine in Paris, taking care of street people, migrants as well as drug users, including women, in all dimensions: administrative, juridical, social, medical, psychological and psychiatrically. Ministry of Health/Association Charonne (2017-ongoing). Human rights and health have been central to Dominique Kerouedan’s work throughout the regions she visited and policy discussions she had with country authorities, civil society stakeholders, and leaders of international institutions. While she was working as a Medical Doctor in Refugee camps it became clear early on that Medicine and Public Health skills were not sufficient to respond to the extremely Bad and unequal Afghan women’s and girls’ health conditions, nor to Karen adolescent fighters’ health knowledge, so as to reduce the mortality affecting these populations. Education, empowerment, political will and peace, to name a few issues, notwithstanding human rights mainstreaming, had to Be taken into consideration if we were to succeed. Coming back from the camps Dominique Kerouedan decided to work with Amnesty International’s Medical Commission in Paris, as well as the Juridical Commission, at the time when the Teams were preparing an international symposium on the involvement of medical doctors in torture and the death penalty in countries suffering from sharia apartheid, regimes or dictatorship (South Africa, Pakistan, Mauritania, Latin American countries, etc.). The title of the symposium became the title of her thesis for the Doctorate in Medicine: “Medicine at risks: Serving or Undergoing Repression”. This work led her to think further aBout how we could improve populations’ and health workers’ conditions, taking into consideration State Sovereignty issues and International PuBlic Law constraints. This is what took her to then study International Public Law through a bachelor’s in law. 3 Ever since,
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