Bonaventure Ngoyi

Bonaventure Ngoyi is a medical epidemiologist with 19 years of experience in primary health care, field epidemiology and disease surveillance, epidemic response and management, program management and evaluation, and training in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and elsewhere throughout Africa. He has taken part in epidemic responses to Ebola outbreaks in the DRC and Guinea, leading field epidemiologists and training health facility and community health workers to identify and report suspect cases of Ebola, investigate chains of transmission, and rapidly end disease outbreaks. 

Dr. Ngoyi has worked for RTI since 2016. During this time, he has served as a project director, senior technical manager, surveillance officer, and senior monitoring and evaluation manager for CDC- and USAID-funded projects. On the CDC Global Health Security project in the DRC, he led an assessment of the surveillance system of priority zoonotic diseases and currently leads technical assistance to the Ministry of Health for epidemiological surveillance activities including a pilot project in Haut Katanga province to implement and evaluate the use of electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (eIDSR) for weekly aggregate and case-based surveillance. On the USAID Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases (ActEast) project, he led training, sampling, data analysis and technical assistance to the National Trachoma Control Program during the nationwide trachoma mapping exercise.