Guéladio Cissé, Professor, PhD

Professional activities at Swiss TPH

• Senior Guest Scientist
• Emeritus Professor in sanitary Engineering and Environmental Epidemiology
• Former Head of the Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit;
• Former Head of the "Ecosystem services, climate and health" Research Group;

Higher education and qualifications

·        2014: Habilitation as Research Professor (Directeur de Recherche) in sanitary engineering, CAMES (Council of Higher Education for Africa and Madagascar);

·        2005: Associate Research Professor (Maître de recherche) 2005

·        2013 : Certificate of Advanced Studies on “Disaster Risk Reduction”, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

·        1997: PhD in Sanitary Engineering (water quality, environmental epidemiology, GIS, qualitative research), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

·        1993: MSc in Environmental Sciences (ecology, ecotoxicology, water pollution, air pollution, soil protection), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

·        1986: Post graduate certificate in Sanitary Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

·        1985: Civil Engineering Diploma, INFORBA Engineering School, Rouiba, Algeria

Short courses: European Course in Tropical Epidemiology (STI, Basel, Switzerland); Epidemiology and Medical Statistics (LSHTM, London, UK); Geographical Information Systems and Public Health (Iowa University, Iowa, USA); Participatory Action Research (ENDA-GRAF, Dakar, Senegal); Water quality management and laboratory techniques (WHO & NANCIE, Nancy, France); Integrated Climate Risk Assessment (IDRC, Nairobi, Kenya)  ; Gender mainstreaming in climate adaptation projects (IDRC, Naivasha, kenya).

 Current and past professional positions

3/2024 - current : Senior Scientist and Technical Advisor to the Director General, Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS), Adiopodoumé, Côte d'Ivoire

3/2024 - current : Guest Scientist, Directorate, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland

9/2021 - current: Adjunct Professor and Project Leader of the Heat Centre Project, University Peleforo GON COULIBALY (UPGC), Korhogo, Côte d'Ivoire

7/2015 - 2/2024      : Head of Unit, Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland

7/2009 -  2/2024        : Project and Research Group Leader; Ecosystem services, climate and health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss TPH, Basel, Switzerland.

7/2004 - 6/2009 : Managing Director, Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in Cote d’Ivoire (CSRS), Abidjan

1/2001 - 6/2004 : Deputy Director, CSRS, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Acting Director: July 2002 – February 2013

7/2001 - 6/2009 : Regional Coordinator in JACS West Africa of the Program NCCR North South on sustainable development and global change (SNF and SDC funded program), CSRS

1/2000 - 6/2009 : Group Leader of the Research Axis “Urban Environment and Health”, CSRS

9/1997 - 12/1999 : Head of the Sanitary Engineering Department, EIER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

9/1996 - 12/1999 : Lecturer in sanitary engineering and environmental epidemiology, Department of Sanitary Engineering, EIER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

1/1994 - 12/1999 :  Research project coordinator on Health Impact of Wastewater Use in Urban Agriculture in Sahelian Context, EIER; PhD fellow and assistant lecturer to the Public Health Professor (1994 - 1996)

• Member of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, from 01.01.2023, to 01.01.2000, AERAS Global TB Vaccine Foundation, http://smbe.org/smbe/