CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Data Quality Control Officer (DQO)

Position: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Data Quality Control Officer (DQO)Location: CRID, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Role Summary The Data Quality Control Officer (DQO) will ensure that all data collected and managed within CRID meet the highest standards of accuracy, integrity, and reliability. The DQO will perform routine verification, audits, consistency checks, and ensure adherence to Good Clinical Practice…

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Demographer

Position: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS DemographerLocation: CRID, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Role Summary For the need of its service, CRID is looking to recruit a Demographer. The ideal candidate will lead the design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of demographic data to inform malaria transmission dynamics and the effectiveness of vector control interventions. The role will focus on understanding…

(F1) Map showing the Logone floodplain in green; (F2) Sampling of participants and administration of questionnaire; (F3) urine samples analysis (F4) Egg of schistosome observed and (F5) Evaluation of the height of an infection participant prior to drug administration

Publication : “Evidence of urinary schistosomiasis in nomadic pastoralists of northern Cameroon and disparities in health knowledge and practices between local and foreign nomadic groups”, by Pierre Fongho Suh & al.

Urinary Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by a tiny parasite that lives in freshwater. People can get infected when they come into contact with contaminated water—like rivers, lakes, or ponds—especially when swimming, washing, or working. The parasite enters the body through the skin and eventually settles in the bladder and urinary tract, where it can…