| | | West African Academic Alliance
| | To ensure the West African Infectious Diseases Institute's (WAIDI's) success and endurance, the West African Chapter of the Academic Alliance was formally established, and provides seasoned leadership and technical guidance for the West African Infectious Diseases Initiative. The West African Chapter currently has membership of a core group of 17 top academicians and health experts from West Africa and the US, selected for their reputations as leaders in infectious disease, including Dr. John Idoko (Co-Chair), Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi of the Nigerian Centers for Disease Control. As a Chapter of Accordia Global Health Foundation's International Academic Alliance, WAIDI has access to a global consortium of academicians, physicians, clinicians, and researchers who are committed to advancing the establishment of permanent capacity for health leadership and innovation in Africa, including the West African Infectious Diseases Initiative. Click on the photos below for full bios. | |  | | Professor William Blattner, MD (Co-Chair)
Director, Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland | |  | | Professor John Idoko, MD (Co-Chair)
Director General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) | |  | | Professor Clement Adebamowo, BM ChB Hons, FWACS, FACS, ScD
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Baltimore – United States | |  | | Professor Etim Moses Essien, NNOM, MB, BS, MD
Professor of Haematology, University of Uyo - Nigeria | | | | | Professor Emmanual Ezedinachi, MD, DTMH
Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute of Tropical Diseases Research, University of Calabar - Nigeria | |  | | Professor Sir Brian Mellor Greenwood, CBE, FRCP, FWACP, FRS
Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | |  | | Professor Emmanuel Oni Idigbe, BSC, PhD
Coordinator, Research Planning and Management, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research | |  | | Professor Phyllis Kanki, DVM, SD
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University – United States | |  | | Professor Oladapo A. Ladipo, MBChB, FRCOG, FMCOG, FWACS, OON
President and CEO, Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) | |  | | Professor Souleymane Mboup, PharmD, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Chief Bacteriology-Virology Laboratory, Université Cheikh Anta Diop - Senegal
| |  | | Professor Idris Mohammed, OON, NNOM, MB, MD, FRCP, DTMH, FMCP, FWACP
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Immunology, University of Maiduguri - Nigeria. Hon. Chief Consultant Physician, Federal Medical Centre, Gombe - Nigeria | |  | | Professor Robert L. Murphy, MD
Director, Center for Global Health - Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University – United States | |  | | Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi, PhD, OON
Director, Nigerian Centers for Disease Control | |  | | Professor Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola, MBChB, MSc, PhD, FMCPath, FWACP
Provost College of Medicine at the University of Lagos, Nigeria | | | | | Professor Geoffrey C. Onyemelukwe, (MON) BSc, MBBS, DTMH, FWACP, FMCP, FICA, HonDL
Professor of Medicine and Immunology, Ahmadu Bello University - Nigeria | | | | | Professor Papa Salif Sow, MD, MS
Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Dakar - Senegal | | | | | Professor Umar Shehu, CFR, FAS, DFMC
Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, University of Maiduguri - Nigeria | | | | | Professor Rich Enujioke Umeh, MB BCh, MSc (CEH), DO, FMC, MRC, FWACS, FICS
Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Nigeria Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus Director, Global Health Initiative, University of Nigeria
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