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 Dr. Jean-François Kobiané, the President of UAPS, is the Deputy Director of ISSP and Head of the Research Unit on "Population & Education" at the Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP), University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). He received his Ph.D. in Demography from the Institute of Demography at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2002, his Master degree in Demography from the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques (IFORD) in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in 1993, and has been an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Demography at the Université de Montréal (2003- 2005). He has worked at the National Statistical Office of Burkina Faso from 1993 to 1996, and joined ISSP in 2002. His research interests include the analysis of the links between family structure, poverty, child labour, schooling, orphans’ wellbeing, and the transition to adulthood in West Africa. He has published more than 20 articles and chapters of book on these topics. His current main research projects include “Consequences of Family-building Strategies and Household Composition on Schooling and Child Labour in Urban Burkina Faso” (AIRD/AFD/Hewlett Foundation), “Out Of School Children (OOSC) in DRC” (DFID/UNICEF), “Community Monitoring for Better Health and Education Service Delivery in Burkina Faso” (JSDF/World Bank). Dr Kobiané teaches courses in demographic analysis, on Education and Health linkages, and in multivariate analysis in the Population & Health Master Degree Program, and the Social Statistics Bachelor Degree Program at ISSP.
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 Dr. Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, the Vice-President of UAPS, holds a PhD degree in Geography and Soil Science (Minor) from the University of Bonn, Germany. He is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana.
He also teaches at the Centre for Migration Studies, Centre for Social Policy Studies and the Institute for Statistical Social and Economic Research all of the University of Ghana. He is currently the Project Leader of the African Adaptation Research Centre of Excellence being sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. His research interests are population-environment nexus, migration, fertility, and climate change/variability and its impact on urban and rural livelihoods. |
 Dr. Tolulope Monisola OLA, the Treasurer of UAPS, has a BSc in Demography and Social Statistics, an MSc in Medical Sociology and a PhD in Population Studies. She co-founded the Sound Health Development Initiative, which is an NGO with a focus on gender issues in Ekiti State, Nigeria. She also lectures at the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Her research interests include adolescent sexuality, fertility, reproductive and sexual health/rights, Women and Child trafficking, Child abuse and gender, and she conducts research and undertakes advocacy and intervention work on issues related to sexuality and sexual rights. She has acquired an understanding of complex sexualities, as well as of the constrained contexts in which many women and men exercise their sexual rights through her research, which enables her intervention programs to meet their goals. She has participated in sexuality trainings, conferences, summer institutes and internships at the national, regional and international levels. She is a member of so many Professional Associations. She is the Financial Secretary of Population Association of Nigeria. |
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 Dr. Henry Doctor, who is the Secretary General of UAPS is an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University based in Nigeria. He holds a doctoral degree in demography from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 2003. His thesis was entitled “Mortality in twentieth-century Malawi.” After obtaining his PhD he took up a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) based at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in the Upper East Region, Ghana. He has 10 years of experience as a population scientist of which five years have been at the Universities of Malawi and the Western Cape. His research interests include Mortality; Health Status and Ageing; Fertility Transitions; Religion and Demographic Behavior; Survey Research Design and Implementation; Demographic Surveillance and Longitudinal Health Research; and Health Systems Operations Research. Some of his published research has appeared in journals such as AIDS, African Population Studies, African Journal of Reproductive Health, International Journal of Educational Development, Rural and Remote Health;Studies in Family Planning; International Journal of Population Research.
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 Ms Thandie Hlabana, the UAPS Southern Africa Regional Representative, is a research methods lecturer at the National University of Lesotho, Department of Sociology, and also a Senior Technical Advisor for Enhancing Strategic Information Project - Lesotho. She is the President of Population Association of Southern Africa (PASA). She is currently doing her PhD in Sociology with Brown University, USA; she holds a Masters in Sociology from Brown University, Masters in Development and Population Studies - University of Kwazulu-Natal, and BA in Economics and Demography from National University of Lesotho, and this is where she was introduced and mentored into a Demographer.
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 Council member of UAPS, Central Africa Regional Representative, Dr. Gervais Beninguissé Professor and Coordinator of Research at IFORD, a Regional Institute for Training and Research in Population Studies, which serves 25 African Francophone countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Demography of the Institute of Demography of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) obtained in 2001; a Master in Demography of IFORD (Yaounde, Cameroon) obtained in 1993; a BA in Economics from the University of Yaounde received in 1991. It was also post-doctoral researcher in Public Health at the Department of Demography and the Health International Unit of the University of Montreal (2002 - 2004). He teaches courses on of analysis of mortality, Socio-demographic Surveillance Systems and the inter-relationships between Population and Development of the Master Program in Demography of IFORD. He also teaches methods of Health Systems Analysis under the Master Program in Population and Health of ISSP (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). His research interests include access to reproductive health care, links between Age Structural Transitions and Development. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and book chapters while providing technical support in socio-demographic data collection and analysis for various development partners (UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, AFD, UNESCO, etc). Dr. Gervais Beninguissé is a member of several research networks such as the Experts Group on Age-Structural Transition, the International Francophone Network for the Promotion of Health and the International Working Group on Obstetric Fistula.
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 Dr. Esther W. Dungumaro, the UAPS East Africa Regional Representative, is a demographer by training and holds a PhD from Tokyo, Japan. She is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Development Studies and Demographic Training Unit, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She also serves as the coordinator, research and publications at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. She has been teaching and researching in areas related to population and development throughout her career. Among her important areas of teaching and research include demographic methods; family and households; population and development; and population and environment.
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 Dr Mohammed Bedrouni, the UAPS North Africa Representative, is a Lecturer and Researcher at Saad Dahleb University of Blida (Algeria). He received his PhD degree in Demography from the Department of Sociology and Demography at the Université Saad Dahleb de Blida (Algeria) in 2007. He obtained a Master degree in Demography from the Institute for Demographic Training and Research (IFORD) in Yaoundé (Cameroon) in 1993 and a graduate diploma as engineer in geography (urban and regional development option) from the Université des Sciences et Technologies Houari Boumedienne in Algiers (Algeria) in 1990. He teaches courses in demographic projections, demographic theories and doctrines, the inter-relationships between Population and Development of the Master Program in Demography of the Université Saad Dahleb de Blida. His research interests include the spatio-temporal variability of the demographic phenomena, demography of North Africa. He is consulting expert with the Economic and Social Council of Algeria.
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 Dr. Yvonne BOSSO, the UAPS West Africa Regional Representative, holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Sociology (Cocody University, Abidjan) and a “Doctorat de Troisième Cycle” in Population and Development (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
She is Director General for Capacity Development in the Ministry of State in charge of Planning and Development in Côte d’Ivoire.
Her areas of interest include studies and research in population and development, training, programme and project management, monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects. |
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