Dr. Ali Sie

Dr. Ali Sié, MD, PhD is a senior scientist, epidemiologist and currently the technical director and team leader on disease control at the Nouna Health Research Centre (CRSN), one of the main research centres of the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) in Burkina Faso, whose main objective is to provide scientific evidence to health planners and policy makers for better health interventions. 

He obtained his medical degree from the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso in 1998 before completing with a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2013. He began his career in 1999 as a clinician at the Banfora Regional Hospital in Burkina Faso and worked for five (5) years until transferring to the CRSN in 2004 as a research fellow in clinical research development. He was appointed head of the research and training unit for two years before heading the CRSN as director in 2006. 

Dr Sié is an international expert in public health/epidemiology in the field of disease surveillance, with over 20 years' experience. His expertise covers health systems research for health policy strengthening, infectious disease epidemiology and the evaluation of health projects and programs. He has an in-depth knowledge of the health system in Burkina Faso and in Africa and leads the Nouna health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS), which was set up in 1992 and is a member of the http://www.indepth-network.org. 

He is also a research associate at the Joseph Ki Zerbo University in Ouagadougou, the University of Heidelberg and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he is involved in teaching and/or field supervision of master's and doctoral students from Burkina Faso and abroad. He is/was principal investigator of several clinical/health system research projects and has authored/coauthored over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and serves on numerous scientific and management boards. He is a member of several scientific committees and research networks, such as the Africa Research, Implementation Science and Education (ARISE) network, and has a long history of collaboration with partners in the South and North.