STAFF OF AGORA INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

AGORA INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY BOARD

Prof. Subhash HIRA

CHANCELLOR

Distinguished Professor of Public Health & Infectious Diseases, PHFI, New Delhi & Affiliate Professor of Global Health, University of Washington-Seattle, USA

Dr. Subhash Hira is a medical doctor who specialized in Infectious Diseases, Dermatology/STI, and Public Health. He has held senior positions, namely Director National STI/HIV Program of MOH-Zambia; Assoc Professor at USUHS-Bethesda; Professor University of Texas-Houston; Technical Advisor to NACO-MoH India & Director, ARCON-JJ Hospital Mumbai (1993-2003);Program Leader World Bank-WashingtonDC;Team Leader WHO-Indonesia;

Pro-Vice Chancellor Mahatma Gandhi UHS-Mumbai;

Vice Chair TRP GFATM-Geneva (2014-18);STAC WHO-TDR-Geneva (-2020).

Prof Yassa Yoniene Pierre

SECRETARY

Professor Yassa Yoniene Pierre is a leader in the fields of health and education, with a career marked by exceptional achievements. He obtained his medical degree and a master’s degree in internal medicine from the University of Kinshasa, and went on to pursue further studies with a postgraduate degree in health promotion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Professor Pierre is also the holder of two doctoral theses, one in leadership from the University of California and the other in alternative medicine from India. He has also obtained several certificates in global health from the University of Washington in Seattle. Throughout his career, Professor Pierre has published about thirty articles in international medical journals and has worked in various healthcare settings, including at the University of Zambia and at the USAID American Embassy in Lusaka.

Prof Max EBENGO BOKELO

High School Diploma Director

Ph.D. in Public Health (2021) from Walden University in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

After working for 18 years in the primary public healthcare system from a developing country in Africa, Dr Ebengho Max is currently an official Associate Professor at the University of Kwango, DRC, the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the AGORA INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY and works as a contractor for the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) in Newark, NJ to prevent the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from entering the United States. He holds a heavy medical background from Congo-Kinshasa since 1995 (University of Kinshasa) while addressing initial HIV issues among pioneers fighters before immigrating to the United States in 2013. With a master’s degree in public health from the Kinshasa School of Public Health in 2004, he also worked from 2020-2021 as an Epidemiologist at the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. He was a  contractor Public Health Advisor in Seattle, WA for the COVID-19 pandemic with CDC from 2020-2022.

 

Prof Charles SENESSIE

MEMBER

President of AEMRN and Director Health Dept.

MBchB (USL), MSc. Dermatology – (Univ. South Wales, UK), Ph.D. Health Sciences – Intl. Health Researcher & Educator (Trident Univ. USA), Ph.D. Public Health Epidemiology – Std. – (Walden Univ. USA), PG Dip. Dermatology – (Univ. South Wales, UK), PG Dip. Epid. (Univ. London, LSHTM – UK)

The President of Afro-European Medical and Research Network (AEMRN)

Dr. med. Charles Senessie had his medical Education at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), University of Sierra Leone in West Africa with published final year medical school dissertation on delays in childhood immunization.

Since his early school days, he had always had the vision of voluntary services to the underprivileged especially in hard to reach communities. Together with a lifelong friend James Wallace-Kargbo, they would always spend their summer vacation in rural areas of Sierra Leone with Voluntary Workcamps Association of Sierra Leone (VWASL), Rotary club, Boys Scout movement or The President Youth Award Scheme helping out in various community projects. These included projects such as agriculture, serving handicapped, syndromic including mentally retarded children in their group homes, building of community recreational parks, replanting of mangrove trees in swamps to rehabilitate and protect the ecosystem. They also took part in tree planting on deforestated hills to prevent erosion and likewise protect the flora and fauna.

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL

Prof Max EBENGO BOKELO

DIRETOR OF HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

DEANS OF FACULTIES AND HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS

Prof Emmanuel KUPENZA MAKELELE

Dean of the Faculty of Theology

Prof LOKOTO LOWA Pierre Armand

Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences

Prof Max EBENGO BOKELO

Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences

Prof TSHIBOLA LUBESHI AIMEE MURPHIE

Dean of the Faculty of Law, Political Science and Administration

HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS

Prof NGUBA BAROKI Bertin

Head of Department of Sciences and Technologies

Prof Blaise KOUAHO

Head of Department of Engineering School

Prof NGUMBU MWILA Héritier

Head of Department of Leadership and Entrepreneurship School

Prof DILMOHAMED AMENA BEGUM

Head of Department of Health Sciences

Prof YASSA YONIENE Pierre

Head of Doctorate School