Dr. Abdoulaye Guindo

Dr. Abdoulaye Guindo is the WANEL country coordinator for Mali. In this context, he is conducting a research for the implementation of the project: Rectifying the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in West Africa: an action research (RECOVER), in the Guinea Cluster, which comprises Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Dr. Abdoulaye Guindo holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He also holds an MPhil in Sociology from Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (UGB) in Senegal. A research fellow at “Environment, Health, Societies”, an international joint research unit. Mr. Guindo was recruited as a teaching assistant at the University of Bamako in 2008. Since then, he has been fully involved in research activities. His research is mainly in health. He wrote a thesis on “l’enfant hospitalisé au coeur des soins medicaux dans le service de pédiatrie du Centre Hospitalo-Universitare Gabriel Touré – CHU GT”, which was innovative in the field of health sciences and contributed to initiating a new “sector” of the anthropology of childhood in Africa. He has also been a member of the international scientific network ENSPEDIA (Children and Paediatric Care) for ten years, which brings about forty paediatricians, haematologists, oncologists and social scientists in seven West African countries together, working on action research to improve the quality of health care in Africa.

Dr A. Guindo has contributed to various practical research projects, a book entitled Enfants et soins en pédiatrie en Afrique de l’Ouest (Children and paediatric care in West Africa) under the leadership of Yannick Jaffré, Karthala Editions, various articles, and a pedagogical film, as well as regular feedback of results to health care teams. Overall, his studies centre around anthropology, suffering as well as delivery of public goods in Africa. Currently, Dr Guindo is a lecturer at Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines of Bamako (ULSHB) where, in addition to teaching anthropology courses, he is conducting a research on “The experience of care among caregivers: emotions, suffering and relationship with the patient in pediatric services in Mali”. Based on an ethnographic survey carried out in a paediatric oncology unit, this research examines the vulnerability of caregivers through care relationship. Specifically, it launches a debate on the socio-affective dimensions of care in order to carry out an enquiry into the emotions and sufferings of caregivers.

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