Mohamed Lamine Dramé holds a Medical Doctorate degree (MD), Havana University – Cuba two master’s degrees (Bio-statistics/Epidemiology – UCL/Brussels and Health Systems Management – ITM/Antwerp-Belgium) and an Academic Doctorate (PhD in Health Policy & Global Health – Nova University of Lisbon -Portugal).
He has an extensive clinical field experience with a long-standing management and public health expert experience developed first in his country (Republic of Guinea) where he was one of the Bamako Initiative actors in the field based on a large and comprehensive immunisation system, the Guinea Primary Health Care (PHC) flagship programme. He then worked and accumulated twenty-one years of experience as senior expert in international development cooperation with international institutions (WHO/Geneva) and bilateral agencies (the German Cooperation – GIZ & the Belgian Cooperation – Enable). He collaborated with major Global Health players like the GAVI, the GFAMT and the WB.
His professional experience covers all regions of the world with a special focus in French-speaking, English-speaking and Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has participated or led tens short-term missions in this context. His long term and short-term technical supports were focused on Health System Strengthening supporting country health sector coordination mechanisms, planning & monitoring processes integrating and aligning the immunisation multi-year planning component, health financing and equitable budgeting strategies, etc.
Mohamed Lamine Dramé’s professional experience is complemented by an academic collaboration with various universities in Africa and Europe where he teaches as guest professor and supervises research topics for master’s theses in public health in the fields of his expertise. These field include universal health coverage policies, health policy dialogue, institutional support for health development, District Health System, process & impact evaluation, Sexual and Reproductive Health, health financing, Human Resource for Health (HRH), Health Care Quality Assurance, Community Health, Immunisation Systems, Disease Control (including communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases), etc. As a researcher, he is also familiar with qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Since August 2017 Mohamed Lamine Dramé has created a Public Health consultancy firm and provides technical supports to African countries and Development Agencies. One his most recent assignment was to support the Global Fund as international “consultant on Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) during the Global Fund application funding process”