Cheick Oumar BAGAYOKO

Cheick Oumar Bagayoko is an expert in health informatics and health information systems. A Full Professor of Health Informatics, he is currently Director of the Center for Innovation and Digital Health at the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), as well as Director of the Center for Expertise and Research in Telemedicine and eHealth (CERTES).

He obtained his Doctorate of Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine in Bamako. Having developed an interest in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the early years of his medical studies, he subsequently strengthened his expertise in the field. He successively obtained an Advanced Certificate in Computer Programming and a Continuing Education Certificate in Medical Informatics from the University of Geneva, a research Master’s degree in Biomedical and Health Informatics from Paris Descartes University (Paris V), a Master’s degree in Health Information Systems Expertise and Engineering from Aix-Marseille II University, and a PhD in Medical Informatics from the same university.

He has extensive experience in developing eHealth strategies, designing solutions tailored to the African context, and managing, implementing and evaluating eHealth projects. This expertise has been developed through numerous assignments in Mali, across Africa and internationally, as well as through his role over the past 20 years as General Coordinator of the Francophone African Telemedicine Network.

Through competitive research grants, he has conducted major studies on the health and economic impact of eHealth in general, and more specifically on its effects on the recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals in several health districts in Mali.

Professor Bagayoko is a full member of the Mali Academy of Sciences, where he chairs the Commission for the Promotion of Science and Relations with Young People. He is also a member of the International Academy of Health Sciences and Informatics. He serves as Vice-President of the Francophone Special Interest Group of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and is a member of the expert committee of the Pierre Fabre Foundation’s Global South eHealth Observatory.

He is the author of several dozen scientific publications in the field of health informatics and has received numerous scientific and honorary distinctions, including Mali’s National Order of Merit medal. Professor Bagayoko was also the winner of the inaugural RFI Apps Challenge Africa Award in 2016.