Mouiche Moctar is a researcher and Associate Professor in disease control and surveillance at School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences of the University of Ngaoundere. His research is focused to improve animal disease surveillance in Afica and effective implementation of a one health disease surveillance programs to fight against emerging threat and Antimicrobial Resistance to improve animal production and preservation of public health. Mouiche is a subject matter expert serving in many national IHR/GHSA technical working groups (AMR, Zoonotic Diseases and Laboratory systems) and One Health platform.

Moctar was the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT Cameroon country coordinator for three years (2017-2019), the PREDICT project seeks to identify new emerging infectious diseases that could become a threat to human health by enabling global surveillance of pathogens that can spillover from animal hosts. He works in collaboration with multi-sectoral government staff to improve One Health zoonotic disease surveillance and workforce development. Presently, he is in charge of planning and coordinating the USAID Infectious Diseases Detection and Surveillance project in Cameroon since May 2019, where he oversees the implementation of an integrated antimicrobial resistance surveillance program and interoperability between animal and human health surveillance system.