AISSATA BA YAHYA – Minister and Secretary-General of the Presidency

BIOGRAPHY

AISSATA BA YAHYA – Minister and Secretary-General of the Presidency

BIOGRAPHY

Name: Aissata Ba Yahya

Date of Birth: 25/08/1967

Marital status: Married

Nationality: Mauritanian

Training

2020-2022: Master 2 in Public Health at the Institute of Health and Development option monitoring and evaluation at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar

1996-2000: Certificate of Special Studies in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Faculty of Medicine of Abidjan (Ivory Coast) Final thesis: The place of ultrasound in the diagnosis of gynecological pelvic masses.

1995 😀 degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Abidjan (Ivory Coast) on the subject 😀 bacteriological diagnosis of Pulmonary Nocardiosis in HIV+ subjects.

1987-1994: PCEM1, PCEM2, DCEM1, DCEM2, DCEM3, DCEM4, internship and doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of Abidjan.

1986-1987: Baccalaureate at the National High School of Nouakchott

 

Experiences

10 October 2026 Appointed Minister and Secretary general of the office of the president

05 August 2024 She was appointed Minister Counsellor at the Presidency of the Republic.

2022-ongoing: President of the Mauritanian Association SOS Femmes Rurales (AMSFR)

2018-2019: Director of Basic Health and Nutrition (DSBN), Ministry of Health, Nouakchott, under his supervision: Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Mental Health Program,

Regional Health Directorate, Expanded Programme on Immunization,Health Education

2009-2018: Director of the Mother and Child Hospital Center of Nouakchott

Establishment of the hospital, equipment, operation of services,

 

Management of the Hospital CentreIntegration of several services:

• UNFPA FP Service Management Unit, Integration of sickle cell disease into management protocols / Health South
• Medical and surgical management unit for obstetric fistula with psycho-social support for patients / UNFPA
• Unit for the treatment of violence against women, psycho-social support, and medical and surgical care
• Cleft lip palate management unit, / Smile Train

Start of audit activities of maternal and perinatal deaths with ASMAGO at the CHME (audit of all maternal deaths occurring in hospitals in Nouakchott and the interior) with follow-up of recommendations at the hospital level by ASMAGO.

2016-2017: President of the Maghreb Association of Gynecology and Obstetrics

2014-2017: President of the Mauritanian Association of Obstetric Gynecologists

2007–2009: Obstetrician gynecologist at the National Hospital of Nouakchott, Maternity Department.

2003-2007: Founding President of the Mauritanian Association SOS Femmes Rurales (AMSFR)

• Establishment of the association,
• Identification of projects
• Projects: Fistula campaigns (Ministry of Health), awareness-raising on FGM, child marriage and sickle cell disease, firewall project (UNDP), implementation of the drilling project (Outside), coordination of civil society CSOs on SR;

2006-2001: Obstetrician-gynaecologist at Sheikh Zayed Hospital maternity department

 

Medical and other skills

• Management of sterility of the couple
• Ultrasound
• Colposcopy and cervical cancer screening
• Monitoring and management of high-risk pregnancies
• Computing
• At the associative level: President of the association
• Mauritanian “SOS Rural Woman”
• Honorary member of the French College of Gynecology and Obstetrics

 

Languages

Arabic: very well read, spoken, written

French: very well read, spoken, written

English: medium level

Fulani: mother tongue, very well read, spoken, written

Wolof: medium level