Dr. Erick Gbodossou MD
PROMETRA International President
Our team brings years of experience to bear on
the greatest challenge of our time.
Our mission is to advance African medicines and treatment solutions
that will result in profound healing for humanity.
About Us
is a 501c3 NonProfit organization headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia USA. PROMETRA USA is the global hub of a collaborative network of traditional healers, farmers, environmentalists and supporters of the natural medicine approach to health and healing.
Established in 2004, PROMETRA USA was founded to provide technical assistance for the network of national PROMETRA chapters. Our job was to assist the international office and national chapters with fundraising, infrastructure development, conferences, publications, intellectual property rights, training, and global advocacy. To that end we, PROMETRA USA, would like to think that we have been somewhat successful. PROMETRA national chapters have grown from 8 to 27. We have been successful in raising over 10 million dollars for PROMETRA International and its chapters from major funders such as the Ford Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Biovision, Coca Cola Africa, The EU, United Nations and others. We have assisted with multiple publications including a quarterly journal, Medecin Verte. PROMETRA USA has supported travel of traditional healers and indigenous scientists to over 10 International AIDS conference – Durban, Geneva, Bangkok, Nairobi, Toronto, Lusaka… . We have Facilitated meetings, conferences and workshops on over 4 continents. One of our most beloved events was Coumba Lamba USA held at the Penn Center (one of our sacred spaces) in South Carolina in 1996. There over 600 persons gathered for a 5 day communal healing ceremony led by our traditional healers from Senegal, Nigeria, Benin and 5 Native American clans. (30th Anniversary celebration will be held in 2026).
PROMETRA International is an international NGP headquartered in Dakar, Senegal created by Dr. Erick Gbodossou in 1971 for the purpose of preserving African traditional medicine, culture, and indigenous science through research, education, advocacy, and practice. Prometra International has 28 chapters in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and USA. PROMETRA International conducts scientific research, hosts international conferences and cultural exchanges.(Prometra.org)
CURRENT LEADERSHIP
Dr. Omavi Bailey MD
PROMETRA USA President
Dr. Arletha Lizana PhD
Board Member
Board of Directors
Theresa McGhee
Kofi Kondwani, PhD
Mtumawa Cleare
Mays Imad, PhD
Council of Elders
Viriginia Floyd, MD ( Current Vice President PROMETRA International)
The honorable, Andrew Young
Michele Ozumba (Past President PROMETRA USA)
Current Projects
- Way of Remembering
Spiritual pilgrimage to Benin - Preserving Sacred Spaces/environmental justice
Restoring, preserving and developing places and institutions that serve as historical, spiritual and cultural resources to the African community at home and abroad such as the Mono River, Sapelo Island, Africa Town etc - Door of return
Connecting people in the African diaspora to the only door of return in Benin - Commercialization of Traditional Medicine products
Developed by healers in Africa and the African diaspora (see marketplace) - Natural Medicine Quality Service Mark
Quality & Ethical testing of natural products In conjunction with the Natural Products Research Center at Morehouse School of Medicine
Research & Publications
- “Anti-human immunodefciency virus-1 activity of MoMo30 protein isolated from the traditional African medicinal plant Momordica balsamina” Mahfuz Khan, Amad Diop, Erick Gbodossou, Peng Xiao, Morgan Coleman, Kenya De Barros, Hao Duong4, Vincent C. Bond, Virginia Floyd, Kofi Kondwani, Valerie Montgomery Rice, Sandra Harris‐Hooker, Francois Villinger and Michael D. Powell Virology Journal 2023 20:50
- The PROMETRA International Journey: Traditional Medicine in Africa Conference presentation for African Medicine Matters: documenting encounters in medical practice and healthcare 6 September 2016 University of Cambridge Cambridge, England