ProfessorSeydou Doumbia

Dr. Doumbia hold an MD degree from the National School of Medicine of Bamako, Mali and a Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA (2002) as WHO/TDR research training grantee. Dr. Doumbia, M.D., Ph.D., is Dean of the Medical School and Dentistry of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako-(USTTB) since 2014 and Director of the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC). From 2006 to 2016 Dr Doumbia has been Deputy Scientific Director at the Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC) of the NIAID-USTTB International Center of Excellence in Research (ICER-Mali) and Chair of the Department of Public Health of University of Bamako-USTTB (2011-2014). Dr. Doumbia research involves infectious diseases mainly malaria and leishmaniasis and HIV to facilitate the test of new interventions and cutting edge technology for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of those diseases. Dr. Doumbia is Program Director/Principal Investigator of several NIAID/NIH funded research grant including the West Africa International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR), Tropical Medicine Research Center (TMRC) Program on leishmaniasis and Neglected Tropical Infectious Diseases. He has been involved in several capacity building initiatives in Africa through NIH Fogarty supported training grants: 1] in public health (MPH) in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, 2] in Bioinformatics/Genomics supported by H3Africa program (Human Health and Heredity in Africa) in collaboration with Tulane University in USA and Covenant University of Nigeria. Other capacity building activities involves the development of clinical research at University of Bamako (University Clinical Research Center, UCRC) and the development of a West African Sub-consortium for clinical research on emerging infectious diseases, a network including Mali, Guinea Conakry, Liberia and Sierra Leone, aimed to harmonized clinical research for multi-center studies. Dr. Doumbia has been successfully awarded of and administered several research and training grants funded by WHO/TDR, NIH, CDC, USAID, UNICEF and IRDC. Dr. Doumbia collaboration in research and training involves several research institutions and Universities including JHU, Tulane University, GWU, Covenant University in Nigeria, ISPED of Bordeaux in France, University of Copenhagen in Denmark, University of Cape Town in South Africa, University of Ghana and UCAD/Thies in Senegal.