Cheikh Seydil Moctar Mbacké
C63 Hann Bel Air 268
BP 11500 CD
Dakar, Senegal
Tel: +221-77-569 6367
Email:
LanguagesU: Proficientin English, French and Wolof
EXPERIENCE
July 2011-present
Senior Advisor (consultant) to the EducationProgram of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, USA
September 2009-present
Associate professor, Sociology Department, University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada
July 2006-present
Senior Advisor(consultant) to the Population Program of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, USA
July 2005- 30 June 2006
Senior Advisor, the Rockefeller Foundation, Dakar, Senegal
June 2003 –June 2005
Vice President, Administration and Regional Programs, the Rockefeller Foundation, New York. Had oversight of administration of the New-York office including IT, Office Services and Library Services and convening of the Senior Management Team. Supervised regional directors in Bangkok, Nairobi and Mexico City
January 99 – May 2003
Director for Africa, the Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
Responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of the Foundation’s programs in Africa (Girls’ Education, Higher Education, Food Security, and Health Equity)
July 1998 to December 98
Acting Regional Representative, the Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
Managed the transition of the Foundation’s activities and staff based in Africa
September 1992 to June 1998
Senior Scientist, Population Sciences, the Rockefeller Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
Responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of the Foundation’s Population program in Africa
January 1988 to August 1992
Researcher, Head of the Training Division, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur la Population pour le Développement (CERPOD), Sahel Institute, Bamako, Mali
November 1986 to January 1988
Researcher, Unité Socio-économique et de Démographie, Sahel Institute, Bamako, Mali
July 1979 July 1982.
Researcher, Head of the Migration Division, Bureau National du Recensement, Direction de la Statistique, Dakar, Senegal
January 1976 September 1977.
Statistician, Bureau National du Recensement, Direction de la Statistique, Dakar, Senegal
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, Philadelphia
UPhD in DemographyU, 1983-1986
University of Pennsylvania, PopulationStudiesCenter,Philadelphia
UMastersin DemographyU, 1982-1983
IFORD, Yaoundé (Cameroon)
UDiplôme d’Etudes DémographiquesU, 1977-1979
INSEE, Paris
UBSc StatisticsU, 1973-1975
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HONORS AND MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The Rockefeller Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2003
Memberof IUSSP’s Population Growth & Human Welfare Panel, 2006-09
Member of IUSSP's Fertility and Family Planning Committee,1996-99
Member of US-NAS Working group on Senegal, 1990-94
Member of IUSSP's Population and Health Committee, 1990-94
Member, Union of African Population Studies
Member, Population Association of America
Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
BOARD/COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Member, Performance Monitoring & Accountability Working Group for Family Planning 2020, 2013-present
Member, African Advisory Committee on Health Research and Development (AACHRD) of the World Health Organization, 2011-present
Member, Board of Directors of the African Population & Health Research Centre (APHRC), Nairobi, 2010-present
Member, Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Paris , 2009-present
Member, Board of Directors of The Population Council,New York, 2009-present
Chair, Board of Directors of the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), Geneva, 2009-2011
Member, Advisory Council for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) African Health Initiative (AHI), 2009-present
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee of the “Programme Population et Santé en Afrique, Universities of Montreal and Ouagadougou, 2008-present
Member, Advisory Board of the Kintampo Health Research Centre, 2008-present
Member, Board of Directors of Tostan (Dakar), 2008-present
Member, Board of Directors of the INDEPTH-Network (Accra), 2006-2010
Member, Board of the Centre for African Family Studies (Nairobi), 2006-present
Member, Board of the African Science Academy Development Initiative (A program of the US Academy of Sciences, Washington DC), 2005-present
Member, Advisory Board of the journal Studies in Family Planning, 2005-present
PUBLICATIONS
Mbacké, Cheikh (1989). Les enquêtes sur la mortalité infantile dans le Sahel - Quelques problèmes d'évaluation technique. Cahiers Québécois de Démographie, Vol.18(2).
Etienne Van de Walle and Cheikh Mbacké (1991). Les facteurs socio-économiques et l'influence de la fréquentation des services de santé, in UMortalité et Société en AfriqueU, Travaux et Documents de l'INEUDU, no. 124:67-84.
Mbacké, Cheikh (1991). Estimating Child Mortality from Retrospective Reports by Mothers at Time of a New Birth, Genus, Vol XLVII(1-2):109-130
Mbacké, Cheikh (1992). Integrating Hospital and Demographic data to inform health programs in UMeasurement of maternal and child mortality, morbidity and health careU, Ties Boerma ed. pp.369-85 - Editions Derouaux-Ordina, Liège.
LeGrand, Thomas K. and Cheikh Mbacké (1992). Différences de mortalité selon le sexe et utilisation des services de santé au Mali, Cahiers Québécois de Démographie, Vol.21(1).
LeGrand, Thomas and Cheikh Mbacké (1993). Teenage pregnancy and child health in the urban Sahel, Studies in Family Planning 24(3):137-49
Mbacké, Cheikh (1994). Family planning programs and fertility transition in Sub-Saharan Africa, Population and Development Review 20(1):188-93.
Mbacké, Cheikh, Philip Adongo, Patricia Akweongo and Fred N. Binka (1998). Prevalence and correlates of female genital mutilation in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana.African Journal of Reproductive Health 2(2):13-24.
Adongo, Philip, Patricia Akweongo and Fred N. Binka and Cheikh Mbacké (1998). Female genital mutilation: socio-cultural factors that influence the practice in the Kassena-Nankana District. African Journal of Reproductive Health 2(2):25-36.
Mbacké, Cheikh and James F. Phillips (2008). Longitudinal Community Studies in Africa: Challenges & Contributions to Health Research, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 23(3):23-38.
Mbacké, Cheikh (2013). African leadership for sustainable health policy and systems research. BMC Health Services Research 13(Suppl 2):S15.
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