CURRICULUM VITAE

Names and Surname                             Erick Vidjin’ Agnih GBODOSSOU

Date of  Birth                                        04^th  February 1948

Place of Birth                                        Grand Popo, Republic of  Benin

Nationality                                            SENEGALESE

Marital Status                                       Married, with 4 children

Address                                              PROMETRA (Association for the Promotion of Traditional Medicine)

                                                               BP.6134 Dakar – Etoile, SENEGAL

                                                               E-mail : erick@refer.sn

                                                               Tel. (221) 834 02 15 / 832 2850 

                                                               Fax. (221) 834 78 20 / 832 57 49

Publications on Traditional Medicine

1. Gbodossou Erick : the traditional science in Africa : the reverend science jostled UNIR1.ED.Dakar AESTD 1975
2. Gbodossou Erick : A science in the shadow: the art of healing in Africa documentary film  : Senegal – Switzerland  1977
3. Gbodossou Erick :  Approach of the African Traditional Medicine - Dakar 1979 N°41 thesis Medicine.
4.  Gbodossou Erick : Alphabet of the African Traditional Medicine T1 80
5. Gbodossou Erick : Alphabet of the African Traditional Medicine T2 85
6. Gbodossou Erick : The Role of religion and spirituality in the life of handicapped persons  1998.
7. Gbodossou Erick : The African Concept from God to Man
8. Gbodossou Erick : FAPEG - Self-Instrtuctional  Training Curriculum  for Traditional Healers, 2000.
9. Golf of  Benin, Divinity ground and of slavery
10. Practical Guide for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Edition Metraf, September 2002

OTHER ACTIVITIES

·        Leader of a group of Africa healers to the International Conference on HIV/AIDS (Japan) GENEVE (Switzerland) LUSAKA (Zambia) PARIS (France) DURBAN (South Africa), Burkina Faso.

·        Leader  of a group of African healers at the International Conference on Traditional Medicine and the HIV/AIDS  and Malaria (Abuja Nigeria)

·        Participation to the Intergovernmental Committee Meeting of WIPO on Traditional Knowledge Protection, Genetic Resources and  Folklore (Geneva) as a delegate from the government of Senegal and observer   from the NGO – PROMETRA International.

• Promoter of doctors – healers – researchers meetings in Senegal.
• Master of the conference within the framework of post – university studies at the University  Cheikh Anta Diop of  Dakar.
• Main researcher of the research project WHO/PCP/RPD/002 African Traditional Medicine studied in Senegal.
• Consultant at UNICEF
• Consultant at  World Health Organizatio (WHO)
• Consultant and resource person at NOVIB (Netherlands)
• Consultant to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maryland USA
• Promoter  and  Director  of the Experimental Center for the Traditional Medicine in Fatick – Senegal.
• Promoter and Honoured President  of healers association of Sine in Senegal.
• Assistant in charge of  Mission to the Health Institute and Development (ISED) of Dakar University.
• Member of International Legal and Scientific Committee on Traditional Medicine.
• Member of the International Jury of Excellence Price  from the ECOWAS on the African pharmacopoeia.
• Member of International Scientific Association « Energie et Vie »
• Member of the International Association  « Le Corps à Vivre»
• Member of International Scientific Committee of the Trance Terpsichore Therapy (T.T.T).
• In collaboration with research teams of the Tulane University /New Orleans (USA) led by Dr.  Robert Franklin  -- Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta - Georgia under the directorship of Dr. Charles Finch --  Anthropology Institute of Medical Anthropology of Vienna, Austria   directed by Pr. Armin Prinz.
• Member  of the Scientific Committee of University of the Mutans in  Goree, Senegal.
• General Secretary of CODATA. West Africa (CODATA : Committee on Data for Science and Technology), International Council of Scientific Unions.
• Member  of European Association “ For a Life Policy ”
• Member of Directors’ Committee of IME (International Medical Exchange) in South Africa.
• Active Member  to Global Health Council (GHC), ex. National Council of International Health (NCIH) in Washington D.C.
• Promoter  of the First International Congress on Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS March  1999.
• Promoter  to the International Conference on Healing the African Way  and Joruney of Spiritual Connexion, January  2000.
• Promoter  of  the creation of a Network of PROMETRA in several African countries
• Promoter of  the creation of a Network of Journalist in Traditional Medicine «REJOMETRA»  in several African countries.
• Promoter and  author of a pedagogic manual for healers training as an IEC agent in the fields of HIV/AIDS natural family planning and  illnesses associated with  the survival of mother and child.
• Expert   Consultant of  WIPO (World Intellectual Property Rights Organization) Geneva
  Expert  Consultant of OAPI (Organization of African Intellectual Property Rights)
• Resource person on research linked to traditional knowledge to the genetic resources and the folklore.
• Expert and consultant to the Fetzer Institute in Michigan (USA).
• Resource person in the field of ancient religions and  universal spirituality.
• Member of Elders Council – Worldwide Indigenous Science Network

HONORARY DISTINCTIONS

• Knight of the National order of the Lion of Senegal 
• Certificate of Distinction awarded by the US AID and the Ambassador of the United States of America in Senegal
• Certificate of Distinction of the Association of «Black Psychiatrists of America »
• Certificate of Distinction of  the Morehouse School of Medicine in  Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Honoured Distinction  of the National Community of the Vaudou Culture in Benin.
• Honorary Distinction of «Healing the Heart of Diversity» :an American Diversity Organization.
• 2000 outstanding scholars of the 21^st Century par International bibliographical centre, Cambridge, England
• Decoration and  awarded an honoured  medal of  the South African government
• Decoration and awarded an honoured medal of the Ugandan government