Ibrahima Socé Fall
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Ibrahima Socé Fall | |
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 Ibrahima Soce Fall 2019 Ebola Conference | |
| Born | Ibrahima Socé Fall 1966 (age 58–59) |
| Alma mater | Cheikh Anta Diop University Tulane University |
| Occupation(s) | Chief Executive Officer, Pasteur Institute of Dakar |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Ibrahima Socé Fall (born 1966) is a Senegalese executive in the area of global health.[1][2] He was Assistant Director-General[3][4][5] for Emergencies Response at the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Assistant – Secretary-General. Fall has worked on various outbreak response and research teams in the field to eradicate the spread of diseases including COVID-19, Ebola, malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis.[6][7] He was previously the Regional Emergencies Director of the WHO in the African Region and worked on Health Security and emergency preparedness and specially on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, epidemics and humanitarian crises.
Fall holds a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in public health, and a doctorate in public health from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. He also holds a master's degree in sustainable development from Tulane University, a degree in tropical medicine and epidemiology from Aix-Marseille University and the École du Pharo. Fall is also a fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK.[8]