Guéladio Cissé

Professional Activities

  • Integrated approaches for water, sanitation, health and wellbeing in urban context (underprivileged and poor urban areas)
  • Assessment of vulnerability, resilience, health risk, and equity effectiveness in environmental health interventions
  • Eco-epidemiology assessments in environmental health sectors (water, wastewater, housing, urban agriculture, climate change)
  • Ecohealth approach applied to water, sanitation, health and adaptation to climate change

Higher Education & Qualifications

  • Civil Eng, 1985 option Infrastructures, INFORBA Engineering School, Rouiba, Algeria
  • Post graduation, 1986 in Sanitary Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • MSc, 1993 in Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • PhD, 1997 in Sanitary Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Maître de recherche (Professorship), 2005, CAMES (Habilitating Council of Higher Education for Africa and Madagascar), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Working Experience

  • 1986-1991: Head of the National Service for Hygiene and Sanitation, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Nouakchott, Mauritania
  • 1993-1996: PhD Researcher and assistant to the Public Health Unit at the Department of Sanitary Engineering, EIER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • 1994 – 1999: Research project coordinator on Wastewater Use in Urban Agriculture in Sahelian Context (SNF and SDC funded project), EIER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • 1996-1999: Lecturer in Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Epidemiology at the Department of Sanitary Engineering, EIER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • 1997-1999: Head of the Department of Sanitary Engineering, EIER, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • 2000 – 2009: Coordinator and Group Leader of the Research Axis on “Urban Environment”, Swiss Centre for Scientific Research, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • 2001 – 2009: Regional Coordinator in JACS West Africa of the Programme NCCR North South (SNF and SDC funded programme), Swiss Centre for Scientific Research, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • 2001 – 2002 and 2003 – 2004: Deputy Director, Swiss Centre for Scientific Research, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • 2002-2003: Acting Director, Swiss Centre for Scientific Research, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • 2004 – 2009: Director, Swiss Centre for Scientific Research, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • 2009-: Project Leader, Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, STI, Basel, Switzerland