Ibrahima Socé Fall

Fall was awarded “African Heroes Awards 2017 by The Department of African Studies and the African Student Association, Ohio University, USA for his contribution to the fight against Ebola in Africa.

Fall was the Director of Health Security and Emergencies Cluster at the WHO Regional Office in 2015. Formally WHO Representative in Mali, he was appointed Ebola Crisis Manager and Head of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) mission in Mali in November 2014. He became Director, Health Security and Emergencies Cluster, WHO Regional Office in Congo.

From February 2007 to October 2012, Fall was the Regional Advisor to WHO Regional Office for Africa, headed the strategic planning team for the malaria programme. In 2007, he was nominated as the WHO focal point for Malaria Strategic planning at  global level as well as Co-chair of the Working Group on Strategic Planning for the global Roll Back Malaria Partnership.

Fall was the Regional Emergencies Director for WHO in the African Region. Fall joined WHO in November 2003 as Coordinator of the Africa Region malaria inter-country support team and the then Regional Adviser for malaria strategic planning.

Ibrahima Socé Fall (born 1966) is a Senegalese executive in the area of global health. He is Assistant Director-General for Emergencies Response at the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Assistant – Secretary-General. Fall has worked on various outbreak response and research teams in the field to eradicate the spread of diseases including COVID-19, Ebola, malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis. He was previously the Regional Emergencies Director of the WHO in the African Region and worked on Health Security and emergency preparedness and specially on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, epidemics and humanitarian crises.