Experience

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WHAT’S THE IMPACT?

Transforming global health through pioneering malaria research, policy development, and mentorship. Decades of work advancing treatment protocols, WHO guidelines, and opportunities for women researchers across Africa.

National appointments by decree

Presidential Decree

Board Chair (PCA): Board of Directors (CONSEIL D’ADMINISTRATION), of the Institute of Medical Research and the Studies of Medicinal Plants (IMPM), Ministry of Scientific Research Yaoundé.

2002-present

Ministerial/National decree

Chair, Conseil Scientifique et Pedagogique du CRFD-SVSE, National appointment by the Rector of the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.

2014-present

Positions Occupied

2013-present

Vice Chair

Scientific and Ethics committee, Chantal Biya International Reference Centre, Cameroon

2002-present

Chair (PCA)

Board of Directors, National Medical Research Institute (IMPM), Cameroon

1990-present

Cameroon Coordinator

National Institute of Health (NIH), USA funded projects: ICIDR, HIRE, IPTp Malaria Projects and Global infectious Diseases Training program

1985-present

Research Professor

Immunology Laboratory, Biotechnology Centre, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon

2005-2013

Director

Biotechnology Center, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon

2005-2013

Professor

Head of Department of Microbiology, Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, UYI, Cameroon; Retired from teaching, now an Emeritus Professor

Keynote Speaker

EDCPT2 Launch, Capetown, South Africa, December 2014

2014

Conference Speaker

For 3 consecutive days as the 2014 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. Received an award of Doctor Honoris Causa

2014

Chair, Scientific Committee

Cameroon Society for Epidemiology, hosting International Epidemiological Conference

2014

International Responsibilities

2022

Co-Chair

Development of a Framework for equitable access to a malaria vaccine with limited supply

2021

Member

IHR Expert Advisory Committee on COVID 19

2020

Co-Chair

Harvard Re-thinking Malaria Working Group

2016

Member

Gairdner Foundation Global Health Award Advisory Committee

2015

Member

Scientific Advisory Group (SAG), for Ebola Vaccine trials in Guinea. Independent Advisory Group (IAG), for, and set up by the New Regional Director for WHO/AFRO

2013

Member

, IHR Expert Advisory committee on Polio eradication. This committee meets with DG/WHO and advices on polio eradication strategy

2012

Vice Chair

Scientific Committee, CIRCB, Cameroon

2011

Member

Malaria Policy and Advisory Committee (MPAC), Global Malaria Program, World Health Organization (WHO)

2010

Chair

Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Secretariat, Biotechnology Center, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon.

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