Dr. Samba Ousmane Sow

Coordinator

Center for Vaccine Development-Mali (CVD-Mali)

Ministry of Health, Mali

Associate Professor of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Samba Sow concurrently serves as a professor of Medicine at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, coordinator for the Center for Vaccine Development, Mali and the chief of the Leprosy Unit at the Institut Marchoux, Bamako, Mali.
At the Center for Vaccine Development, Dr. Sow heads the implementation of field and hospital-based epidemiologic studies and clinical trials in the study of vaccine preventable diseases. At the Institut Marchoux, he leads the screening and treatment of leprosy and its complications, conducts therapeutic trials in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène de l’Hôpital Pitie-Salpêtrière and develops training programs for the Institute.

Dr. Sow has served as the coordinator for WHO Multi-Center Field Trial on Leprosy Chemotherapy, where his responsibilities included case enrollment, follow up and project supervision of the Mali field site. He has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals including The Lancet and Science and has spoken at key conferences and symposia, most notably the WHO Expert Committee Meeting in South Africa and ISPPD-6 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Dr. Sow received his M.D. in Medicine from the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy of Mali in 1990. Dr. Sow’s honors include the 2000 Paul Laviron Prize in Tropical Medicine from the University of Marseille, France. He was also named the Commemorative Fund Lecturer of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 2006.