Odile Ouwe Missi Oukem-Boyer, PhD is a senior researcher (Immunologist as background), with research interest in infectious diseases (Schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis, HIV, hepatitis, malaria, meningitis, cholera, influenza) and over 18 years of experience in African research centres both at scientific and administrative and management level.
She is vice-chair of the Cameroon Bioethics Initiative (CAMBIN) and member of its Ethics Review Consultancy Committee, as well as member of other Ethics Committee in Congo (FCRM) and Central Africa (CERSAC).
She is involved in Capacity Building, in Health Research Ethics, and in Tropical Infectious Diseases.
From 2006 to 2012, she was the deputy Director at the CIRCB, a research centre in Yaoundé, Cameroon, focusing on HIV/AIDS. From 2012 to 2015, she has been appointed as the General Director of the CERMES, in Niamey, Niger, which is under the umbrella of the Ministry of Health, and also part of the International Pasteur Institute Network (33 institutes worldwide).
She is now looking for another job opportunity, either in France or anywhere else in the world.
