Dr Patrick Katoto

Senior Medical Officer and Sub-Investigator

MBChB, MSC (Stellenbosch University), PhD (KU Leuven)

CHI research group: General Medicine & Global Health (GMGH) 
CHI membership: Associate member

Patrick Katoto is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health. He is the co-founder and co-Director of the Centre for Tropical Diseases and Global Health at the Catholic University of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has more than ten years of working experience as a clinician, academic, and advisor for multiple public and private health agencies.He works on various projects of global health concern to produce evidence to inform decision making to address HIV, tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases, non-communicable diseases, air pollution in resource-limited settings and recently COVID-19. He is co-investigator of the Baseline African Sepsis Incidence Survey (BASIS) and of the StatinTB trial, a proof-of-concept study to reduce post-tuberculosis lung diseases and has published more than 50 articles including in The Lancet and JACC.

Patrick is a Fogarty Fellow (HIV-comorbidity research training programme in LMICs), a Fellow of the Central & West Africa Implementation Science Alliance for the establishment of a network in implementation research (University of Maryland Baltimore, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Yale University) to accelerate the scaling up of novel diagnostic tools and clinical guidelines to improve children's health, a fellow of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council and a member of the Institute for Health Metrics' Global Burden of Diseases project (University of Washington). He  teaches at several African universities and participates in the Globalization and Sustainable Development course at the University of Hasselt in Belgium. He serves as  faculty at The Pan African Thoracic Society - Methods in Epidemiology, Clinical, and Operations Research and as Team Leader of the graduate tracking Technical Working Group at the African Forum for Research and Education. He also serves as academic editor of PLOS Global Public Health and as associate editor of the Pan African Medical Journal.

Research engagements:

  • HIV/AIDS-cardiovascular diseases
  • Post-tuberculosis cardiorespiratory diseases
  • Vaccines-preventable diseases and Vaccinology
  • Health effects of air pollution, research methodology and Evidence to Inform Decision Making