Jeanne is the Deputy Director of the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), since March 2025.
A public health leader and enthusiast, Jeanne has acquired more than a decade of experience and field practice, working to improve access to quality health care in Rwanda and beyond; notably in Central and West Africa. In her current and previous roles, she managed the implementation of multiple disease and health systems strengthening programs, where she set the strategy and oversaw the management of programs, their budgeting and operations. Jeanne has core competencies in health policy, program management, resource mobilization, leading and mentoring high caliber technical and operational teams while ensuring a unified working environment and shared vision. Jeanne has worked and continues to work closely with government partners, donors, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and coordination of efforts to build sustainable and equitable health care systems.
Early on, Jeanne’s passion for health systems strengthening in the development context has shaped her academic background. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy and Project Management from EHESP – École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Psychology and Medical Humanities from Wofford College. She has also studied Global Health and Development Policy at the School for International Training (SIT).
Prior to joining RBC, in 2015, Jeanne started working for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Kigali, at first as an Analyst then an Associate, in their newly established Hepatitis Program. Through its initiation phase, Jeanne provided instrumental support to the Ministry of health and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre in launching the National Viral Hepatitis Program and the development and implementation of a long-term elimination plan of Viral Hepatitis in Rwanda. In late, 2016, Jeanne became the Country Director of Team Heart, Inc., where she initiated a country office and establishing Team Heart’s strong country presence. Notable work projects were the spearheading of the initiation of the first registry on Rheumatic Heart Disease in the country, leading the research and development for the building and running of the first Cardiac Care Center in Rwanda and the elaboration of cardiovascular training and mentorship programs.
In 2019, Jeanne re-joined CHAI in their Global Malaria team, based in Dakar, as a West and Central Africa Regional Manager for Malaria. She guided the provision of technical and operational assistance to national and sub-national malaria control programs in West and Central Africa, most especially in Benin, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Jeanne shaped CHAI’s support in the Francophone Africa region, initiating and expanding CHAI Malaria country programs and supporting government partners to strengthen case management, surveillance, and response systems to reduce malaria-related deaths and accelerate progress towards elimination.
Most recently, in 2021, Jeanne joined the CHAI DRC country office, as their Associate Director for Infectious and Neglected Tropical Diseases Programs. In her tenure, she spearheaded the development and coordination of effective implementation of technical and operational activities, management systems, and supervision of a growing CHAI team across the areas of infectious diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), and nutrition. Moreover, Jeanne oversaw the effective start of CHAI as a Global Fund Sub-recipient (SR) in one province of the country and the implementation of activities while building a highly competent national and subnational programmatic and operational team.
A native of Rwanda, Jeanne is a global citizen with a deep appreciation of cultural diversity. Jeanne enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling in and outside of Rwanda and dreams to see health care for all become a reality!
Dr. Francois Uwinkindi is the Division Manager of Non-Communicable Diseases Division.
He is a Medical Doctor with a Master’s Degree in Epidemiology from University of Rwanda.
Dr Francois previously served as the Director of the Cancer Diseases Unit for 4 years from 2015 to 2019, the post he occupied after serving for more than five years in national HIV Control Program with different roles and responsibilities in Prevention, Care & Treatment, Monitoring and Evaluation and Clinical Research.
Prior to joining Rwanda Biomedical Centre, he worked as a medical officer at Byumba district hospital for 2 years.
Dr. Gallican is a Head of National HIV, STIs and Hepatitis Programs since December 2020.He is adept at designing, testing and implementation new initiatives to curb HIV infections and transmissions among high-risk group for more than 5years. He holds a Medical Degree in General Medicine and Surgery from National University of Rwanda and Master’s in Epidemiology from Mount Kenya University.
Prior to this position, Dr. Gallican worked with ICAP at Columbia University as the Project Manager for HIV Case-based Surveillance (CBS), seconded to RBC; Before that, He served as a Senior Study Coordinator for the Rwanda Population based HIV impact Assessment Survey (RPHIA) of 2018-2019. Prior to joining ICAP, he worked as General Practitioner within different rural and urban District and referral Hospitals in Rwanda.
He is an active member of different National and Regional technical working groups on HIV and Viral Hepatitis Programs implementations.
Eng. Annick Ishimwe is the current Division Manager for the Medical Technology Division. She has a Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and an MSc in Public Health (Global Health) from the University of Southampton. She is a Chevening Alumni and WEF Global shaper.
Dr. Albert TUYISHIME is a Medical Doctor. He holds a master’s degree in clinical Epidemiology from the University of Rwanda.
He serves as the Head of HIV/AIDS, Diseases Prevention and Control Department at Rwanda Biomedical Centre.
For the last 10 years, Dr Albert has worked for Rwanda Biomedical Center, gaining senior-level experience in health programs and systems design, strategic and operational planning, development of Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks for health programs, methods and models for impact and cost analysis as well as development of frameworks and conducive environment for business projects in Health sector.
Dr Albert has also managed the implementation of the Rwanda Health Information Systems (RHIS), including fostering innovation, projects planning, organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources to ensure access to quality health information systems and data.
Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI is the Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre. He has more than 10 years of technical, managerial, and strategic experience and expertise in the field of clinical and public laboratory medicine with special focus on clinical microbiology, laboratory systems and service strengthening, and global health security.
Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI is currently a full professor of clinical Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine. He holds a degree in general medicine from the university of Rwanda, a specialization and a PhD in Clinical Microbiology from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He also holds a master’s in medical Virology from the University of Manchester.
Prior to joining the RBC, Prof. Claude Mambo MUVUNYI was a Senior Regional Laboratory Advisor at ICAP at Columbia University, providing technical and strategic leadership support to the Laboratory program/project in building quality assured diagnostic capacities at all levels in the network (public and private health laboratories) of countries in Africa, South and Central Asia, and central America. He has also been a senior consultant for World Health Organization (WHO) supporting WHO’s programs for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and diagnostic capacity building in African countries. He has been the Head of National reference Laboratory, and the Director of Microbiology unit as well as a study physician for AIDS Vaccine clinical and feasibility research at Project San Francisco.
He has published papers in several international and regional peer-reviewed journals and has made numerous presentations in international conferences. His research interests include evaluation of diagnostic methods (molecular and serological) for infectious diseases and operational research on diagnostic implementation and scale up, and to assess the impact of the new diagnostic for infectious diseases.
Mr Theo Principe UWAYO, ACCA, CPA (R) is the Chief Finance Officer at RBC since 5 February 2022. He joined RBC from 14 April 2021 serving as the Deputy Director General of RBC. Before then, He has had extensive experience in public sector accounting and auditing, whereby he participated actively in audits of Government Budget Agencies and Government Business Enterprises for fifteen years
He studied at Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management, currently University of Rwanda- College of Science and Technology where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree (BBA) in Accounting. He completed his ACCA professional accountancy qualification and He is a member in good standing for both Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Rwanda (ICPAR) Rwanda.
Before joining RBC, He worked at the Office of the Auditor General of State Finances where he occupied various posts. He joined RBC while he was working as Director of Audit, whereby his work included overall management of the Department including but not limited to supervision of various audit teams and handling departmental administrative issues as the Head of the Department.
