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Dr. FA\u00cf\u00c7AL NDA\u00cfROU<\/h2>\n\n

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Chercheur \u00e9minent dans la mod\u00e9lisation des maladies infectieuses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late 2013, the worst outbreak of Ebola in history began in West Africa. By the time the outbreak had been contained more than two years later, the World Health Organization had reported over eleven thousand deaths, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Notwithstanding the loss of life and social disruption caused by the outbreak, the containment effort was largely a success. Fears of an out-of-control pandemic however came to pass, thanks to the coordinated administering of vaccines by health professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout, their programmes were guided by a critical source of information\u2014mathematical models of the disease. Fa\u00ef\u00e7al Nda\u00efrou, working from AIMS Cameroon, was part of the essential body of researchers helping map out Ebola\u2019s behaviour to inform health workers\u2019 plan of action against the disease at the front line. Dr Nda\u00efrou was born in Maroua in the Far North of Cameroon; a region on the frontier between Central and West Africa. His community was mostly made up of small traders, and investing in education for them was difficult. Fa\u00ef\u00e7al\u2019s father was a trader himself, and though he had no formal education, he always encouraged Fa\u00ef\u00e7al to go to school and pushed him towards university. In a turn of luck, the government designated Maroua as a priority education area and established a new university in Fa\u00ef\u00e7al\u2019s home city, which he was admitted to shortly thereafter. There, he was pushed in his first year towards mathematics by the head of the university\u2019s maths department, and following his BSc was accepted to AIMS Cameroon in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At AIMS Cameroon, Fa\u00ef\u00e7al discovered generous students eager to share their knowledge, who had a creative ability to apply the mathematics they learned to real world problems. Whereas his undergrad had primarily been theoretical, AIMS Cameroon taught Fa\u00ef\u00e7al practical skills such as computing and programming. During his time at AIMS, Fa\u00ef\u00e7al became increasingly passionate about writing equations to describe dynamic and biological systems. In this same period, the Ebola outbreak was threatening to reach Cameroon, with cases being reported in neighbouring Nigeria. Fa\u00ef\u00e7al began researching infectious disease dynamics, and through AIMS was able to connect with academics in Spain and Saudi Arabia to co-author an article, \u201cMathematical modelling of the 2014 Ebola outbreak,\u201d published in the scientific journal Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Nda\u00efrou describes several innovations in the model outlined in his team\u2019s article. Whereas previous models of Ebola had shown instantaneous rates of change for new infections, Dr Nda\u00efrou\u2019s more complex function took into account the full evolutionary history of the outbreak. Dr Nda\u00efrou was able to achieve this \u201cmemory effect\u201d through use of a fractional differential operator, applying a type of calculus developed by mathematician Michele Caputo in the 1960s.
This improvement resulted in a model that compared to classical equations with an error range of 174 cases per day, predicted new infections to an accuracy of within 7 cases per day. Since graduating from AIMS Cameroon in 2016, Dr Nda\u00efrou has continued to work in modelling of diseases, with a new article on Ebola modelling to be published this year. Together with his Galician and Portuguese supervisors, Dr Nda\u00efrou has used optimal control theory to add to his equation an important practical concern that had been omitted from past Ebola models\u2014the limited quantity of vaccines available. With an ever more precise understanding of patterns of disease spread, the responses to future outbreaks promise to be more effective making large scale epidemics a thing of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fa\u00ef\u00e7al is currently a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He hold 2 PhDs in mathematics, both under the supervision of Prof. Delfim Torres (University of Aveiro, Portugal) and Prof. Iv\u00e1n Area (Universidade de Vigo, Galiza, Spain). The most recent one was obtained under joint program of Universities Aveiro, Porto and Minho, in Portugal in 2022. The first one was obtained at University of Vigo, Galiza, Spain in 2020. His main research area is optimal control of fractional order systems; viability analysis of control systems, stability analysis of dynamical systems, Fractional models, mathematical models for dynamics of infectious diseases.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prominent Researcher in the Modelling of Infectious Diseases In late 2013, the worst outbreak of Ebola in history began in West Africa. By the time the outbreak had been contained more than two years later, the World Health Organization had reported over eleven thousand deaths, mainly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Notwithstanding the loss<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6636,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","profile-testimonial":"","profile-success":"","profile-studentbio":"","profile-studentname":"Dr. FA\u00cf\u00c7AL NDA\u00cfROU","profile-country":"Cameroon","profile-program":"Taught Masters, 2014\/2015"},"tags":[],"student_types":[13],"acf":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/06\/faical-1.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/author\/nathalie\/","display_name":"nathalie"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 3 ans il y a","modified":"Mis \u00e0 jour 3 ans il y a"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le juin 19, 2023","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le juin 22, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le juin 19, 2023 10:58 ","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le juin 22, 2023 5:57 "},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"post_tag":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"post_tag","name":"\u00c9tiquettes"},"student_types":{"linked":["Alumni<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Alumni<\/span>"],"slug":"student_types","name":"Student Type"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student\/6634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/student"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7124,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student\/6634\/revisions\/7124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"student_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aims-cameroon.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/student_types?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}