Experience

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (Burkina Faso)- Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro
• Burkina Faso
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Anthropologist

  • 2011 - Present


Unité de recherche clinique

• Biotechnology Research

• Sociologue

  • Sep 2010 - Present

  I have joined the Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (CRUN) in 2011 as a research fellow. My first exposure to socio-anthropological research occurred with my participation to a NIH funded clinical trial, aiming to assess the risk of malaria prior to and during early pregnancy in nulliparous women receiving long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation. In this trial, I was in charge to conduct qualitative research on the acceptability of weekly iron supplementation.This allowed me to produce two papers under the supervision of Doctor Loretta Brabin from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). The first paper on the perception of iron supplementation was published in Maternal and Child Health Journal in 2014 and the second on adolescent women adherence to weekly supplementation was recently published in the Reproductive Health Journal in 2018. My second experience was a community-based study, which is a FP7-funded multi-centric study. This study aimed at assessing the impact of Community-based Scheduled Screening and treatment in addition to the standard IPTp-SP as an alternative to IPTp-SP alone in the control of malaria in pregnancy. In this study, I was in charge of conducting field work of the anthropology work package in Burkina Faso and Benin. Show less