Mamadou Bamba Mr Sagna 2014 World Cancer Congress

Mamadou Bamba Mr Sagna

Mamadou Bamba SAGNA is an expert in Environmental Law and Public Health Law, specialized in Chemicals and Pesticides use, Sustainable Development, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Global Warming and Tobacco and Alcohol Control. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Law and a Post-graduate Qualification Certificate in Environmental Law from the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar. He holds several Certificates in Tobacco Control from the John Hopkins School of Public Health of Baltimore (USA), the University of Pretoria in South Africa and the McCabe Centre for Cancer and Law in Melbourne (Australia).Since 2010, he’s a programme Coordinator at the African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) a regional network of more than 146 member organizations in 36 African countries of the Afro Region. Within this organization, he is responsible of the development campaign program precisely the integration of tobacco control into development agendas of sub-regional organizations such as WAEMU and COMESA. He provides technical assistance on tobacco legislation to civil society organizations based in Benin, in The Gambia, in Gabon, in Mauritania and in Senegal to support the adoption of compliant FCTC laws and regulations. Before joining the African Tobacco Control Consortium (ATCA), he worked as project officer for Pesticide Action Network Africa (PAN Africa), the regional branch of Pesticide Action Network International from January 2007 to July 2010.