Bassirou Bonfoh holds a DVM and a PhD in epidemiology. He worked for 5 years (1995-2000) in West Africa as a livestock development program coordinator for Vétérinaires Sans Frontières. He went for a 4 year (2000-2004) epidemiology postdoctoral fellowship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). He subsequently led for 4 years (2004-2008) a research group in Horn Africa, West Africa and Central Asia where he contributed to validate the One Health concept. Between 2009-2018, he was the Managing Director of CSRS where he led the North-South science diplomacy. He is since 2009 to date the Director of the Consortium Afrique One (DELTAS I) contributing to the scientific foundation of One Health and the capacity development of a cohort of 70 young scientists in the same field. He is a guest lecturer at University of Liège, Belgium, Swiss TPH/ University of Basel, Switzerland, African universities (Côte d’Ivoire, Togo), and at the Inter-States Veterinary School, Senegal, of which he is the chair of the scientific advisory board since 2017. He is an author and co-author of up to 200 peer review papers and a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.
