Career summary
A public health physician, with a doctorate in medicine from the Université nationale du Zaïre (1978) and a graduate of the Kinshasa School of Public Health (1998), Dr Gertrude Lay Ofali Etsir has built her career between clinical practice and public health: clinical physician at Kintambo hospital, then chief medical officer of the Masina health zone (2001–2012). At the National Tuberculosis Control Programme, she created the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, centralized tuberculosis data in the DRC and contributed to the development of the national strategic plans and to resource mobilization from the Global Fund, for which she is a pioneer in the DRC. She now heads the NMCP's Monitoring and Evaluation Division.
Division services
- Monitoring
- Evaluation
- Data management
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