Dr Chadia WANNOUS

Regional One Health Officer for Africa, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)

Dr. Wannous is a public health professional with extensive experience in health emergencies preparedness and response and risk reduction.

Dr. Wannous is the OIE Regional One Health Officer for Africa overseeing initiatives on zoonotic diseases, AMR, wildlife health, climate change, biodiversity and biological threat reduction.

Dr. Wannous coordinated the implementation of the health components of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and led its Science and Technology Partnership and Advisory Group (2015-2017). She was the Senior Policy Advisor to the UN Special Envoy on Ebola response in West Africa (2014-2015) and to the UN System Influenza Coordination (2011-2015)

Dr. Wannous is member of the Expert Panel of IPBES scoping report on assessing the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health in the context of climate change and the IPBES expert group on "Biodiversity and Pandemics" report.