Ghislain Bisimwa Balaluka

Commissioner

Doctor of Medicine, Professor, and Rector of the Catholic University of Bukavu

Doctor of Medicine from the University of Kinshasa (1993). He completed his Master’s in Public Health (1998-1999) and his Advanced Studies Diploma (2005-2006) at the School of Public Health of the Université Libre de Bruxelles before obtaining his Ph.D. in Health Sciences in July 2012 from the same university. He has been a researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro (formerly IRSAC) since 1994 and collaborated with the Medical Center of the Université Libre de Bruxelles on its cooperation activities from 1994 to 2013 in implementing research projects on nutrition and the health system in South Kivu. A former Provincial Medical Inspector for the province of South Kivu, he continues to collaborate with the Ministry of Public Health (DEP-Santé) in the reform of the health system and in the implementation of the ‘basket-fund’ approach at the level of the Provincial Health Divisions (DPS). He is also a member of the Working Group for Vaccine Coverage in the DRC (GTCV). He is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Université Catholique de Bukavu (UCB) (2013-2019) and Honorary Director of the UCB’s school of public health, the “Ecole Regionale de Santé Publique” (2013-2023). He is currently the Rector of the UCB since May 2023. He is a co-founder of the health knowledge center of the DRC, the “Centre de Connaissance en Santé de la RDC (CCSC). His areas of interest include nutrition, maternal and child health, and the organization of health systems in crisis contexts.”

ORCID number : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4799-1115