Richarb B Yapi

Experience

During his PhD project on Plasmodium (the causative agent of malaria) and helminth co-infection, he gained experience in statistical modelling and the management and analysis of data from large community-based research. The same time, he acquired expertise in the socio-ecological factors relating to public
and animal health in Côte d’Ivoire. he was part of a team that planned and executed the first national school-based parasitological survey carried out in Côte d’Ivoire in 2011 and 2012. he gained extensive experience in planning and conducting epidemiological surveys, data management and analysis and publication writing. During his 1-year stay at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) from 2012 to 2013, which was made possible thanks to a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for researchers from developing countries (ESKAS), he could take advantage of courses to further his skills in epidemiology and biostatistics. The latter work enabled estimations of the treatment needs for the school-aged population across Côte d’Ivoire at district level, which is an essential step for health and policy planning and for implementing sustainable control and elimination strategies at the national and local level. In 2017, he began a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship on brucellosis control (as part of Afrique One-ASPIRE Program funded by the Wellcome Trust/African Academic Science), aiming to investigate different approaches to the control of brucellosis that fit African settings. This year, he has been appointed as an infectious disease moderator for the ProMED, a programme of the International Society of Infectious Diseases. He is author and co-author of 17 peer review papers.

Research interests

Swiss TPH, ProMed

Disease areas

• COVID-19
• Helminths
• Malaria
• Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)