Contact Details:
Co-opted Country Programmes - GAELF
Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center
The Task Force for Global Health
325 Swanton Way
Decatur, GA 30030
Atlanta
USA
T: 404 687 5621
F: 404 371 1138
E: dkyelem@taskforce.org
Dominique Kyelem
Dominique is Program Director for the Gates Foundation Grant at the LF Support Centre (LFSC), US (Atlanta). He serves as a key liaison of the LFSC to various partner organizations and is responsible for developing and implementing various program objectives of the Gates grant to the GAELF entitled: “Resolving the Critical Challenges Now Facing the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis”.
Dominique was a GP for several years before embracing the public health field. He performed ultrasonography and hydrocelectomy while in the regional hospital of Dori, in northern Burkina, where he was Director of the hospital. His public health career started with his appointment as Director of Health of the Northern Region in Burkina Faso.
Prior to joining the Atlanta LFSC in 2007, Dominique was in charge of the unit of communicable diseases including lymphatic filariasis in the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso; he worked at various levels and sectors of the health system of his country for more than 14 years. In 1996, his hospital received the label “Baby friendly hospital” for its good breastfeeding practice; he was the pioneer of national NIDs for polio eradication district level implementation in Burkina Faso.
Dominique has been a consultant for WHO since 2001 supporting African countries in lymphatic filariasis elimination activities and is a member of several advisory committees. He extensively worked on Guinea worm and initiated the Schistosomiasis Control Programme in Burkina Faso in October 1999 as the first Programme Manager.
Dominique holds a medical degree from the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), a Masters in Public Health degree from the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and a PhD degree from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom).