PEDRO VAZ
KEY FACTS
Position
ICHESS national consultant, Guinea-Bissau (community health; geo-referenced mapping of traditional practitioners, 2026)
Profile
Senior nurse and public health specialist
Experience
35+ years in the Guinea-Bissau health system, from health area manager to national director
Education
Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP), funded by CDC – INASA, Bissau (2017)
Postgraduate diploma in public health – ISED, Dakar (2001)
General nursing – Escola Nacional Dr Fernando Cabral, Bissau (1988)
Languages
Portuguese, French, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Manjaco; elementary English
Core expertise
- Community health systems, community health workers and community IMCI
- Decentralized health system monitoring and regional micro-planning
- Field epidemiology and community health information systems (DHIS2)
- Traditional medicine policy, mapping of practitioners and training curricula
- Training of trainers: IMCI, essential family practices, vaccine and cold chain management (MLM)
Career highlights
- Ministry of Public Health, Guinea-Bissau – Director of Community Health Services and Traditional Medicine Promotion (2016–2023); coordinator of the semi-annual decentralized monitoring of the health system and of regional micro-plans
- Deputy Regional Health Director – Farim (2009–2016) and São Domingos (2006–2009)
- Head of health centres and health areas in Quinara and Bolama (1988–2006)
- Guinea-Bissau focal point and delegate at African Union, ECOWAS/WAHO and WHO forums on community health, primary health care and traditional medicine (2018–2023)
- Consultant for community health in a reproductive health access project and for the national mapping of traditional medicine practitioners
OFFICIAL CV
- Work experience
- Education & training
- 2016 – 2023 · Director of Community Health Services and Traditional Medicine Promotion, Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP)
- 2009 – 2016 · Deputy Regional Health Director, Farim
- 2006 – 2009 · Deputy Regional Health Director, São Domingos
- 1988 – 2006 · Head of health centre and health area: Fulacunda, Empada and Brandão (Quinara), Nova Sintra (Bolama)
- Member of the Ministry of Health technical committee and of the national trainers’ team
- National Vice-President of the nurses and health technicians’ union SINETSA (2009–2020)
- Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP) – INASA, funded by CDC (2017)
- Postgraduate diploma in public health – ISED, Dakar (1998–2001)
- General nursing – Escola Nacional Dr Fernando Cabral, Bissau (1985–1988)
- DHIS2 Academy level 2, community health information system – UNICEF Regional Office, Dakar (2018)
- Training of trainers in community IMCI, essential family practices and community-based surveillance (2016); clinical IMCI (2007); vaccine and cold chain management (MLM)
Let’s Work Together
We welcome collaboration with ministries of health, development partners, donors and research institutions. Contact us to explore how our expertise in health systems strengthening, epidemiological modeling and real-time monitoring can support your programs.
CONTACT
Mon – Fri, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
+243 822 325 425
info@ichess-us.org
OFFICE ADDRESS
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Suite 704 D, 7th floor
Gombe, Kinshasa – DRC
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