Dr Steve Ahuka

Dr Steve Ahuka is Chief of the Virology Department at the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); Head of the Medical Biology Department, Kinshasa Teaching School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN), Kinshasa; Chief, Chief, Research Clinic Laboratory for Ebola Randomized and Controlled Trials in Nord-Kivu; and Professor and Hospital Practitioner, Kinshasa Teaching School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Dr Ahuka is also the Incident Manager of Covid19 Outbreak Response in DRC and the General Coordinator of Ebola outbreak Response in the NordKivu, Sud-Kivu and Ituri.

Dr Ahuka trained as a medical doctor at the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) and holds a Master in Tropical Medicine from Nagasaki University, Japan.

 He specialized in Medical Biology at UNIKIN, 2008 and received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Montpellier 1, France. His fields of research include HIV genetic diversity and outcomes in the treatment (Resistance to Antiretroviral Therapy) and diagnostics, molecular epidemiology of HIV and HTLV, surveillance of emerging viruses at the human-animal interface (Zoonosis) that could originate in severe outbreaks such as Ebola, Yellow Fever, Dengue, HIV-AIDS.

He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.