NYIRAZINYOYE Laetitia

Biography

Prof. Laetitia Nyirazinyoye is a Full Professor in Public Health at the University of Rwanda, in the Community Health Department of the School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences. Initially, she was trained as nurse at the Rwamagana School of Nursing and Midwifery (Infirmière accoucheuse A2) from which she graduated in 1996 with Distinction. She received her bachelor’s degree in public health in 2002 at the National University of Rwanda and joined academic staff of the University the same year.

In 2007 after receiving her Master of Science in International Development and Technology Transfer, Prof. Laetitia was awarded a PhD in 2011, in International Health and Development with concentration in community health programs at Tulane University. Laetitia has an expertise of more than twenty years in teaching and conducting policy and program evaluations using qualitative and mixed research methods. The focus of her studies is Maternal Child and adolescent health especially the relationship between mental health and human development in a divided society, including the protection of children, adolescents, and women against both exposures to, and increase of trauma from genocide, violence, and HIV/AIDS. She has been member of the Executive Committee of the Rwanda National Ethics Committee (RNEC) from 2013 to 2023. From 2011 to 2018, She was the Principal Investigator of a PEPFAR-funded CDC grant supporting SPH in improving quality teaching for service delivery. Since 2006, she has been trained to strengthen capacity of health professionals and policy makers from Eastern and Southern African Countries. In the last ten years, Prof Laetitia has supervised more than 10 PhD theses and participated in five PhD thesis evaluation committees at the University of Rwanda, and other Universities including Western University in Canada, and Radboud University in the Netherlands. she continued to develop her teaching skills in distance teaching using recent technologies and Global Health approach, methodologies, and principles to address complex health challenges faced by the people of Rwanda, and other cultures and contexts in Africa and elsewhere. Prof. Laetitia has the training and research experience to support the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of National Unity and Civic Engagement, the Rwanda Biomedical Center, Government development partners, research institutions, and Civil Society Organizations in implementing research and interventions to improving health and lives of the population in Rwanda and in the World.