Oumar Gaye Professor Oumar Gaye is the Director of the Malaria Research and Capacity Development Consortium in West and Central Africa (MARCAD Plus). As a Professor of Parasitology at UCAD in Senegal, Malaria advisor at the Senegalese MoH and at WHO Afro he coordinated during the last thirty years of research on malaria and several parasitic diseases which led to strategies that have impacted the decision-making of malaria management policies. He is a founding member of RBM in West Africa, a member of The World Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Senegalese Academy of Sciences and Technics; He is a Board Member at Malaria Consortium & and at WWARN/IDDO. He received the Senegalese Presidential Prize in Sciences in 2012 and was elected as an International Distinguished Fellow by ASTMH in 2021. Prof Gaye has coordinated several training courses on malaria and has helped countries establish systems for diagnostic and monitoring drug resistance; he has mentored several young African scientists, helping them to obtain a professorship or positions in research institutions and health programs.