Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D

Resourceful & Analytical Epidemiologist weaving more than 15 years of experience in field epidemiology including outbreak investigation and research

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

Après plus de 15 années passées au sein de MSF, c'est une grande satisfaction de voir l'expertise opérationnelle acquise sur le terrain être partagée aujourd'hui avec les experts des États membres de la CEDEAO pour renforcer la sécurité sanitaire régionale.

[ECOWAS Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control @Ecowas_cdc]

Epidemic threats that cross administrative and national boundaries present significant challenges to public health. In such contexts, rapid information sharing and robust coordination mechanisms are essential to protect populations.

Recognizing these priorities, @Ecowas_cdc and the World Health Organization @WHOAFRO recently completed a major technical mission in Dakar.

The two organizations identified priority areas of collaboration under the following themes:
1. Coordination
2. One Health
3. Surveillance and Public Health Intelligence
4. Emergency Response and Humanitarian Operations
5. Laboratory Systems and Diagnostics

This collaboration marks an important advance for public health in West Africa, laying the groundwork for a regional “health shield” designed to anticipate, detect, and mitigate health crises proactively.

@AbdouKolley @JMDiarrass @NCDCgov
@ecowas_cedeao @OoasWaho @GouvcI
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@NPHIL6 @santegouv_sn @cousenegal
@cous_senegal @SneipsO @MSPS_Togo
@mohgovgh @mohs_sl @MohGambia
@WHOAFRO @UKinNigeria @muhammadpate
@ECOWAS_RAHC @mariannebonkano @vicfatimehin
@Dr_Babacar @_GHSofficial @Gouvci @USCDCNIGERIA
@mohs_sl @ezekielagir @Santeci @AFENETAfrica @npha_sl

[ECOWAS Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control @Ecowas_cdc]

It is with great pleasure that the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control @Ecowas_cdc welcomes Dr. Franck Alé, who joins our team as Principal Programme Officer for Surveillance and Early Warning. His arrival strengthens our technical capacity and regional leadership in early detection and epidemic response.

Dr. Franck Alé is a public health expert and epidemiologist with 20 years of experience in West and Central Africa. He holds a PhD in Public Health as well as a master’s degree in Epidemiology from the University of Bordeaux in France.

Throughout his career, he has worked with major international organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières, Action Against Hunger, Epicentre, and Population Services International. He has taken part in numerous outbreak investigations, including Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, diphtheria in Kano (Nigeria), Mpox in the DRC, and the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as several cholera, measles, and dengue outbreaks across the region. He has also developed and implemented disease surveillance systems, particularly in contexts of population displacement and refugee camps, and coordinated large-scale epidemiological research, especially in the fields of infectious diseases and nutrition.

More recently, he served as Head of Epidemiology for MSF in West and Central Africa @MSF_WestAfrica , where he provided technical leadership, managed regional teams of epidemiologists, and worked closely with Ministries of Health and partners such as WHO to strengthen outbreak detection and response systems. His scientific work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet, Archives of Public Health, PLOS One, Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, and Maternal and Child Nutrition.

At the Regional Centre, Dr. Franck will be responsible for strengthening surveillance and early warning mechanisms, supporting preparedness and response to public health emergencies, and coordinating technical partnerships and capacity-building activities.

We are confident that Dr. Franck Alé’s experience, technical expertise, and leadership will be valuable assets to our Centre and to our regional partners. Please join us in giving him a warm welcome, supporting his integration, and collaborating with him to enhance detection and response to health threats across the region.

Welcome to the team, Dr. Alé — we look forward to working together to strengthen public health for our populations.

@AbdouKolley
@ecowas_cedeao
@GouvcI
@UKHSA
@giz_gmbh
@Fmohnigeria
@NPHIL6
@santegouv_sn
@cousenegal
@cous_senegal
@MSPS_Togo
@mohgovgh
@mohs_sl
@MohGambia
@WHOAFRO
@SalamGueye
@UKinNigeria
@muhammadpate
@ECOWAS_RAHC
@mariannebonkano
@onesimec
@vicfatimehin
@Dr_Babacar
@_GHSofficial
@Gouvci
@USCDCNIGERIA
@mohs_sl
@ezekielagir
@anss_guinee
@Santeci
@AFENETAfrica
@npha_sl

[Francesco Scalone @DemoStorica]

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[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

Create Beautiful Plots Easily with these R Packages by Nicolo Cosimo Albanese in @TDataScience https://t.co/JF5TvHrLEN

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

We Are Looking for:
PROJECT COORDINATOR / DHIS2 DEVELOPER
The DHIS2 Developer is in charge of implementing all activities related to the development of a DHIS2 based platform at MSF WaCA HQ and its deployment on the missions.

https://t.co/RwIs8xbDJv

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

Nous recherchons: COORDINATEUR DE PROJET / DÉVELOPPEUR DHIS2
Poste basé en: Abidjan avec possibilité de visite sur le terrain
https://t.co/RwIs8xbDJv

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

ggpairs in R https://t.co/a2XlfRADnO

[Data Science Tutorials @DataSciencetut]

Calculate the p-Value from Z-Score in R https://t.co/KXBLkq8mnJ #rstats #rstudio #programming #statistics #datascience

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

Excited to join the @PLOSONE Editorial Board, an #OpenScience journal publishing trusted research in over 200 subject areas across science, engineering, medicine and the related social sciences and humanities.

[Leon Eyrich Jessen @jessenleon]

Take a dataset, stratify, fit logistic regressions, get estimates and confidence intervals and visualise everything in 25 lines of #dataScience in #rstats using #tidyverse code 💻📊📈📉 In the fall, I will be teaching my #bioinformatics students how this is done 🎓👍

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

Patients, health-care workers, and civil society groups must push for more equitable research and development and hold decision makers accountable.
@ElsTorreele

[Els Torreele @ElsTorreele]

👇NEW paper: "Breakthrough treatments for #Ebola but no access—what went wrong, and how can we do better?"
Important lessons towards new framework for epidemic preparedness and response @MSF_WestAfrica @YapBoum2 @ISARIC1 @TheIndPanel @WHO
open access: https://t.co/x8Q8w9lMAx

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

Breakthrough treatments for Ebola virus disease, but no access-what went wrong, and how can we do better? https://t.co/0EENcS9s67

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

@ElsTorreele

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

We have just published our paper on equitable research using the case of treatment of Ebola Virus disease.
https://t.co/0EENcS9s67
#EquitableResearch
#GlobalHealth
#UHC
#MSF
#MSFWaCA
#ethics
#africa
#health

[Els Torreele @ElsTorreele]

👇NEW paper: "Breakthrough treatments for #Ebola but no access—what went wrong, and how can we do better?"
Important lessons towards new framework for epidemic preparedness and response @MSF_WestAfrica @YapBoum2 @ISARIC1 @TheIndPanel @WHO
open access: https://t.co/x8Q8w9lMAx

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

@KMbappe Faut apprendre de ca

[Dr.FRANCK ALE,Ph.D @ALEGUY5]

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo celebrates resilience of girls and young peopl… https://t.co/p1ZGxyEpgK via @reliefweb

[R Markdown @rmarkdown]

Web Scraping with R by Scraping King https://t.co/ZkvakUI695 #rstats

[R Markdown @rmarkdown]

Lineare Regression -- A Visual Introduction To (Almost) Everything You Should Know
https://t.co/QNfM7GcySQ -- by @jdwlbrv #rstats #dataviz #datascience #ml #machinelearning #LineareRegression #stats #machinelearning