Dr. Kiki is an observer working on the Project Ice Storm under the supervision of Dr. Suzanne King and Dr. David P. Laplante at the Douglas Institute Research Center.
Dr. Kiki holds an M.D. degree from the University of Benin (West Africa) and a Master’s degree in Public Health (Option Epidemiology) from the University of Oklahoma (USA). Her primary area of interest was infectious disease. During her MPH training, she conducted a field work on the trend of tuberculosis (TB) incidence in 3 provinces in Benin.
Dr. Kiki is committed to a career in Public Health, especially in the areas of her specific interest, including behavioral sciences, epidemiologic research, public health surveillance, and disease control and prevention. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Kiki was a post doctoral research fellow at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta where she participated in the epidemiologic study of prostate cancer screening and mortality in black and white men in the five Metropolitan Atlanta Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) areas. The study was funded by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USARMC). The fellowship provided her with the opportunity to take course on the Introduction to Public Health Surveillance for Health Professionals at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. This course exposed her to the work of field epidemiologists who have been part of the smallpox eradication program. Their experiences convinced her of the significant impact of epidemiology on entire populations as opposed to individuals. In September 2003, she spent three months in Cameroon where she helped as technical officer to meet public health demands regarding the wild polio virus under a CDC/WHO Global Polio Eradication Program. From 2004 to 2006, through the U.S.A. global funds to fight HIV, malaria, and TB, she was assigned to work with the National TB Control Program of Benin as a TB Control Officer. She assisted in the decentralization of TB surveillance in that country. In January 2010, due to the importation of the wild polio virus from polio endemic countries to previously polio free countries in the developing world, she participated one more time in the Polio Eradication initiative as Field Surveillance Officer in Burkina Faso where she contributed in reinforcing the Integrated Disease Surveillance system in place and participated in 2 rounds of polio immunization campaigns.
Contact Information
Psychosocial Research Division
Douglas Institute Research Center
McGill University, Dept. of Psychiatry
Perry Pavillon, 3rd. Floor
6875 LaSalle Blvd.
Verdun (Montréal), QC
H4H 1R3 CANADA
Telephone: 514-761-6131, ext. 2833
Email: celestine.kiki [at] douglas.mcgill.ca
Reports/Papers/Presentations
Celestine Kiki: CPHA/CDC/WHO "STOP Polio team 33" Mission report, Burkina Faso, Mai 2010.
Celestine Kiki, Martin Gninafon: The National TB Control Program quarterly report, July 2005.
Celestine Kiki, Martin Gninafon: The National TB Control Program quarterly report, July2004.
Celestine Kiki, Christophe Agbangla: CDC/WHO "STOP Polio team 14" Mission report, Cameroon, December 2003.
Celestine Kiki: Relationship between race and ovarian cancer in the U.S.A., Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2003 (Poster Presentation)
Celestine Kiki: Association between talcum powder use, coffee and alcohol consumption and ovarian cancer in the U.S.A., Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2002 (Grant Proposal)
Celestine Kiki, Sarah Vesley: Will AIDVAX use in Benin prevent childbearing age women from HIV? Oklahoma University, Protocol for Clinical Trials, May 2001.
Celestine Kiki, Martin Gninafon: Trend of TB in 3 provinces in Benin (West Africa) compared with that in developed countries, University of Oklahoma, January 2001 (Field work for MPH).
Celestine Kiki, Martin Gninafon, Semiou Latoundji: Association TB and HIV in CNHU, Cotonou, Benin, October 1996, (Doctorate degree thesis, National University of Benin).