Dr. Samba Ousmane Sow
General Director
Center for Vaccine Development-Mali (CVD-Mali)
Ministry of Health, Mali
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Samba Sow serves as a General Director for the Mali Center for Vaccine Development and as the chief of the leprosy unit at the CNAM, Ex-Institut Marchoux in Bamako, Mali. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
At the Center for Vaccine Development, Dr. Sow heads the implementation of field and hospital-based epidemiologic studies and clinical trials on vaccine-preventable diseases. He is in charge of the leprosy screening and treatment and conducts therapeutic trials in collaboration with the World Health Organization, the Laboratoire de Bacteriologie-Hygiene de l’Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere and the Fondation Raoul Follereau, Paris at the Institut Marchoux. He is also responsible for the development of training programs. Dr. Sow’s work has been published in dozens of peer-reviewed journals.
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