Togo/ Who is Professor Tchin Darré, the New Minister of Health and Public Hygiene?

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Extract from the article: The Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene has a new leader. Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa has passed the baton to Professor Tchin Darré following the formation of the new government unveiled on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. According to directives,...

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The Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene has a new leader. Professor Moustafa Mijiyawa has passed the baton to Professor Tchin Darré following the formation of the new government unveiled on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. According to directives, Professor Tchin Darré will develop and ensure the implementation of state policy in public health.

Born on December 31, 1979, in Kabou, Bassar Prefecture, Professor Tchin Darré obtained his high school diploma in Science (Series D) in 1999 and enrolled at the University of Lomé in the Joint Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, where he earned a Doctorate in Medicine in 2006. He then obtained a specialist degree in Pathological Anatomy and Cytology in 2013 in Abidjan. He became a CAMES Assistant Professor in 2014, an Associate Professor in Pathological Anatomy in 2016, and a Full Professor in 2020. He is a university lecturer and a specialist in Pathological Anatomy and Cytology. He is married and the father of two children.

Professor Darré has held numerous academic and hospital positions, including: Referent Head of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FSS) at the University of Lomé with CADMEF and CIDMEF since 2016; Member of the CAMES aggregation competition supervision committee at FSS in 2018; Member of the FSS examination committee (organization, monitoring, and management of grades) in 2016; Head of the Department of Basic and Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Lomé since January 2022; Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lomé since May 2022; Anatomopathologist at Sylvanus Olympio University Hospital from March 2011 to January 2023; Anatomopathologist at Lomé Commune Regional Hospital as Head of Department since January 2023, and since January 2024, Anatomopathologist at CHU CAMPUS, as Head of Department.

Throughout his academic and hospital career, Professor Darré has provided numerous services to the university, national, and international communities. These include training deans, vice-deans, and department heads of the Faculties of Health Sciences at the Universities of Lomé and Kara in quality management within universities in the UEMOA region. He is a member of the expert committee for pharmacovigilance. He has also participated in teaching General Pathological Anatomy at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Kara and in foreign universities. He is a member of the Medical and Biological Society of Togo, a full member of the Francophone Africa Division of the International Academy of Pathology (DAF/AIP), and a full member of the African Society of Morphology (SAMO).

Professor Tchin Darré is the author of around a hundred scientific publications and has delivered numerous presentations at international conferences and congresses.

Source: MSHP