UNIKIN
Leading role in Work Package 6 “Modelling the transmission in study sites”
The University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a public institution created in 1954, dedicated to education, research and community service. It has more than 50 years of experience in conducting research of various kinds, namely clinical trials, operational studies, national representative survey and epidemiological studies. UNIKIN has developed excellent risk assessment models to prevent outbreaks of cholera and is establishing the models for Ebola virus under the on-going EDCTP3 funded project Ebola PREP-TBOX (project number 101145709).
UNIKIN has benefitted from extensive capacity building through the Institute of One Health (INOHA) directed by Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe. INOHA has a well-established master program in Ecology of Infectious diseases (Master ECoM-ALGER). Through INOHA, UNIKIN possess an observatory of morbid phenomena which enables data repository for all epidemiological data on all outbreaks including Cholera, Ebola and Mpox. The Institute works closely in partnership with the Ministry of Health and the National Institute for Medical Research (INRB) for surveillance and epidemiological studies of infectious diseases. The partnership allows UNIKIN to have access to INRB laboratories including the biosafety level 3 lab facility, the RT-PCRs and the sequencing facilities.