Dr. Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire, Haitian Heroine in the War on Ebola and COVID-19

Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire is a Haitian, a physician trained in Cuba, a specialist in family and community medicine. She holds a doctorate in epidemiology and public health from the University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, an MBA from Queen Mary University of London, and a fellowship in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was responsible for coordinating the response to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and to Covid-19 in the Central African Republic. Spotlight on a woman of the field, a star in spite of herself, who inspires young people and is revolutionizing the concept of “humanitarian work” within the World Health Organization.

Claudy Junior Pierre
26 Aug 2025 — Lecture : 8 min.

The Democratic Republic of Congo officially declared the end of its fifteenth Ebola outbreak in September 2022, four years after the initial reappearance of the frightening disease on May 8, 2018, which caused 33 deaths in three months out of 38 confirmed cases. Behind this historic achievement were feet on the ground, brains at checkpoints, and countless anonymous individuals carrying out thankless but useful tasks, as is often the case in humanitarian work.

In August 2020, on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, during the #Re

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