Dr Elvis Temfack is a Senior Research officer at Africa CDC, based in Ethiopia. He is a medical doctor with over 15 years’ clinical and health research experience. Prior to joining Africa CDC, he worked at Epicentre, the Research department of “Doctors Without Border” (Médecins Sans Frontières) in Malawi as field principal investigator providing technical support through relevant clinical evidence generation for national health ministry policy change for HIV first-line treatment from Efavirenz to Dolutegravir-based therapy.
He is highly experienced in designing and conducting cohort studies and clinical trials with track records of co-authorship of many peer reviewed publications in high readership international journals and is also associate editor in some international journals. He is also a member of many collaborative working groups, especially those addressing research in human health.