Provides strategic oversight, ensures institutional alignment, validates major workplans and flagship outputs, and supports resource mobilization and accountability.
As Rector of the University of Burundi, Prof. Bararunyeretse provides institutional leadership and strategic direction for CEpiNet, ensuring alignment with academic excellence and national public health priorities.
Strategic oversight and institutional alignment
Resource mobilization and academic partnership development
Provides technical oversight and ensures CEpiNet's activities are integrated with national public health systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo, facilitating cross-border collaboration and knowledge transfer.
Technical validation and national system integration
Ensuring operational relevance and field applicability
Brings decades of outbreak response experience to guide CEpiNet's scientific direction, ensuring research outputs translate into actionable public health interventions and strengthening laboratory-based surveillance across the region.
Scientific oversight and outbreak response integration
Quality assurance and emergency response alignment