Professor Daouda Ndiaye is professor and head of the Department of Parasitology and Mycology in the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy at Cheikh Anta Diop University. He is also head of the parasitology laboratories at LeDantec Research and Teaching Hospital in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Ndiaye manages field site activities in Senegal for a number of collaborating institutions, including Harvard University, Tulane University, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He serves as director of the International Research and Training Center on Infectious Pathogens and Genomics, and Senegal-Director of the Senegal Harvard Malaria Initiative.

Professor Ndiaye has extensive experience interacting with international collaborators and scientific bodies, having worked with collaborators from other malaria endemic countries as well as with partners in Europe and the US. At the World Health Organization (WHO), He serves as a consultant on behalf of the WHO Global Malaria Programme, including service as a technical advisor on malaria diagnostics, an expert on drug resistance and response, and a malaria expert and member of the WHO Malaria Elimination Certification Panel. Professor Ndiaye earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacy and Parasitology from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal and received a Fogarty Fellowship to study molecular biology in the laboratory of Professor Dyann F. Wirth at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2017, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

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