Personal Information

  • Experience :
    7 Years
  • Education Qualifications :
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Professional Qualifications :
    MD, MPH, PhD
  • CAWISA Designation :
    Country Representative -> Cameroon

Biography

Brief About Dr. Marcel Yotebieng

Dr. Yotebieng is Associate Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He started his professional carrier as physician in Cameroon before moving to US. He holds additional degrees in Maternal and Child Health (MPH) and in Epidemiology/Biostatistics (PhD), both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the past two decades, he has worked in multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa as clinician, HIV programs implementer, and researcher. Between 2009 and 2013, he lived in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where he developed an extensive research portfolio focused on HIV and Tuberculosis prevention, care, and treatment outcomes mostly among women of reproductive age and children.

He has served as PI or Co-PI for numerous grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He currently leads a large trial using data driven continuous quality improvement interventions to optimize long-term outcomes of ART in women who initiate lifelong therapy because of pregnancy in DRC (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03048669), and co-lead the Central Africa International Database to Evaluate AIDS (https://ca-iedea.org/) and the Rwanda/DRC/Einstein HPV/HIV-Associated Malignancies Research Center.

His areas of research include: Implementation research, Program evaluation, Clinical trials, HIV prevention, including the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT), HIV care and treatment, Tuberculosis, and Maternal and child health.

Online Profiles

Faculty Webpage: https://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/16189/marcel-yotebieng/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-yotebieng-2a447b12/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcel_Yotebieng