Building Capacity: Developing Future IPC Leaders in African Healthcare Settings
Tracks
Meeting Room 1.63 - 1.64
Monday, June 30, 2025 |
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Overview
Speaker: Prof Andy Bulabula
Speaker
Prof Andy Bulabula
Africa CDC
Building capacity: Developing future IPC leaders in African healthcare settings
Biography
Prof. Andy Bulabula is a Medical Doctor with specialist training in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and a Clinical Epidemiologist with a PhD in Public Health. He currently serves as IPC Unit Lead at Africa CDC Headquarters in Ethiopia, where he provides strategic leadership on IPC, health system resilience, and pandemic preparedness and response across Africa.
He is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University La Sapientia of Goma (DRC), where he teaches public health, IPC, and research methods. He is also the Founder of IPC Academy Online Inc., a Canada-based platform offering high-quality IPC training accessible worldwide for emerging professionals.
Prof. Bulabula contributes to IPC education globally, teaching in specialist programs at ICAN–Radboud University (Netherlands), and has developed a contextualized foundational IPC course at the University of Kinshasa.
A former Executive Board Member of the Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN), he has contributed to major global health initiatives in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), healthcare-associated infections, vaccine rollouts, and workforce development. He was the Clinical Lead for the Gates Foundation–funded BARNARDS project on AMR in neonates and served as Senior Clinical Researcher at Stellenbosch University.
He has supervised PhD students in partnership with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Stellenbosch University, and the University of Lubumbashi. He is a member of several WHO Guideline Development Groups (GDGs) for IPC and emergency guidance and was recognized as an ISID Emerging Leader (2016–2020).
