Institution: Centre d'Entologie Médicale et Vétérinaire, Université Alassane Ouattara
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
Dr Richard B Yapi is an epidemiologist by training from the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire. Currently, he holds a research position at the Centre d’Entomologie et de Médecine, Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire, and is an associate researcher at the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He was part of a team that planned and executed the first national school-based parasitological survey, which was carried out in Côte d’Ivoire in 2011 and 2012 during his PhD project on Plasmodium (the causative agent of malaria) and helminth co-infection.
Dr Yapi gained extensive experience in planning and conducting epidemiological surveys, data management he gained experience in statistical modelling and the management and analysis of data from large community-based research and analysis and publication writing, thanks to 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). From 2017 - 2021, he got 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.
From 2020 to mid of 2023, he acted as handling editor for the International Journal for Infectious Disease. Since 2020, he is acting as an infectious disease moderator for the ProMED, a programme of the International Society of Infectious Diseases. He is author and co-author 20 peer review papers.
Dr Yapi is the project lead for the PROVE programme in Côte d’Ivoire, and initiative of CDC Africa and Mastercard Foundation that aims to assess in real world the effectiveness to COVID-19.
