Next-Gen Health Security: Youth Leadership and One Health in the Pandemic Agreement Era

Dr. Frankline SEVIDZEM WIRSIY is a global public health and development professional with 12 years of relevant experience working with international and national organizations in public health epidemiology, development, research, global health security, one health, immunization practice, advocacy, community engagement/mobilization, control of infectious diseases, academia, and strategic communication. Frankline is presently the Community Mobilization Coordinator for the second CAMPHIA Survey in Cameroon; a PEPFAR/US CDC-funded project; led by the Ministry of Public Health and primarily implemented by CBCHB. He is also a Technical Advisory Panel Expert of the Pandemic Fund, a DEAL Fellow at the Academy of Public Health, a Global Health Security Consultant both for Shoreland Inc. and for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. Dr. Wirsiy is a reviewing editor for eLife Sciences Publications, as well as a member of the inaugural Youth Advisory Team for Health at Africa CDC. Furthermore, Frankline is a SwitchPoint Future League Member; an advocacy partnership by IntraHealth Int’l with the Global Fund and ONE Campaign Africa, a Pfizer_One Young World (OYW) Ambassador, a member of GAVI CSO Constituency, and a board of trustees member of the African Public Health Students Network Initiative. His academic involvement includes being a mentor/supervisor of MSc/PhD students in several public and private universities.

Previously, he was a Technical Expert for Global Health Security, Disease Control and Prevention at AMREF Health Africa, a research consultant at the University of Pittsburgh, a Proposal Development Consultant with IntraHealth Int’l, and an International consultant for the USAID-funded RHITES-E Project, in Uganda. He also served as an Epidemiologist Expatriate with MSF in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo for its largest HIV/AIDS project.

Furthermore, he responded to COVID-19 Pandemic Control and Preparedness in Cameroon as an Epidemiologist with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). He has been a Project Manager for a UNICEF-sponsored Program in Cameroon and has worked in several US CDC/PEPFAR Sponsored Programs in Cameroon. He is an author of over 48 peer-reviewed publications and his research interests include but not limited to Global Health Security, Emerging and Re-Emerging zoonotic diseases, One Health, AMR, Immunization Practice, Mental Health, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Climate change impact on Health, Health policy & systems, Maternal and Child Health. He is a T-shaped person who is open-minded & flexible.