Virgile Kikaya is a public health leader and program manager with more than 20 years of experience working in Sub Saharan Africa. He qualified as a clinician in DRC in 2001, before he moved into public health and gained expertise in technical assistance for disease control, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, and project planning, management and implementation. He has provided technical and management support for programs for Maternal Health, Family planning, HIV prevention, care and treatment, malaria, TB and for the control of neglected tropical diseases in Lesotho, the DRC and in other African countries at the district health, regional and national levels.

He has worked for several international organizations and donors including WHO, UNAIDS, PWC/ Global Fund as well as Ministries of Health. Currently, Virgile Kikaya serves as Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, Global Health Security Technical Director as well as DRC Country Director. He provides overall strategic guidance in the various technical areas of Global Health Security including Public Health Emergency Management.