Oumy Thiongane

Oumy Thiongane is a Visiting Research Fellow and teaches environmental sociology at the Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (UASZ), Senegal. Trained in ethnology at Paris VIII and in social sciences and Health at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), she completed a PhD on meningitis

epidemics in Niger, focusing on the politics of epidemic response in West Africa. She also holds a degree in Ethics and Law of Artificial Intelligence from the University of Artois and is certified as an AI Ethics Officer.

Her research combines medical anthropology, public health, and environmental studies, with broad fieldwork in West Africa, Western Europe, and the Balkans, and extensive collaborations with international research institutions including IRD and CIRAD. She has published on epidemics and technologies, inequalities in health, pharmaceutical politics, and digital health surveillance.

Oumy Thiongane also works on agroecology and socio-environmental transitions, developing forest gardens in France and Senegal. In addition to academic publications, she is engaged in science communication and podcast production on decolonizing Global Health in Francophone Africa.