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Alumnus appointed as director of Africa CDC

Dr Nkengasong has 20 years of experience at the CDC and is now to lead the Africa division
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Former ITM student and colleague John Nkengasong has been appointed as the new director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)!

Dr Nkengasong has joined the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 20 years ago and currently serves as the Acting Deputy Principal Director for the Center for Global Health (CGH). Previously, he has directed the laboratory programmes for the Division of Global HIV and TB, and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to support diverse programmes in partner’s countries in several countries in Africa, South East Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean.

He received a Masters in Tropical Biomedical Science at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. Between 1993-95 he was Chief of the Virology and the WHO Collaborating Center on HIV diagnostics at the Department of Microbiology at ITM, and has worked together with Peter Piot and Guido Van der Groen.

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