Dr. Dieudonné Mwamba

With a career spanning over two decades, Mwamba has made significant contributions to disease prevention, outbreak preparedness, and health systems strengthening across Central and West Africa. He played a key operational and leadership role in the international response to the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in Guinea, where his expertise in surveillance and field epidemiology was instrumental in helping contain one of the deadliest epidemics in recent history.

In the DRC, he has led numerous public health interventions and emergency responses, including efforts to combat cholera, measles, COVID-19, and re-emerging Ebola threats. He has also served as Chief of the Division of Epidemiological Surveillance at the Ministry of Public Health, overseeing national disease monitoring systems, data analysis, and strategic response coordination.

In addition to his professional roles, Mwamba is advancing his academic and research work as a doctoral candidate in Public Health (Global Health option), focusing on health security, policy, and pandemic preparedness in fragile health systems.

Driven by a strong commitment to health equity, regional collaboration, and system resilience, Dieudonné Mwamba remains an influential figure in Africa’s public health landscape and a dedicated advocate for building sustainable laboratory systems, surveillance capacity, and public health workforce development.