Professor Oumar Gaye is a specialist in Parasitology-Mycology, Malariology, and Epidemiology; certified in Environmental Sciences & and Malacology; he has received further training in immunology & and molecular biology. He was a Fulbright fellow at Purdue University (USA).
He coordinated the Ph.D. training program in Malaria and human diseases at UCAD and chaired the research committee of the Malaria Control Program for 20 years. He was the technical advisor on research of the Senegalese Ministers of Health. As a WHO technical expert and advisor in malaria diagnosis and treatment, he has conducted several consultations in the WHO Afro region to set standard operating procedures. He was a Malaria Advisor at the Gates Foundation and a founding member of the Roll Back Malaria network in West Africa.
Professor Gaye coordinated several trainings on malaria as a WHO expert or as an academic.
He is the Director of the Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Capacity Development Consortium in West and Central Africa (MARCAD Plus). He is a member of the National Academy for Sciences and Technics in Senegal, a member of The World Academy of Sciences, a Board Member at the Malaria Consortium & and at the Worldwide Antimalarial Network/Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (WWARN/IDDO).
Prof Gaye is the author of over 200 scientific publications related to several subjects: Malaria, Schistosomiasis, Filariasis, Intestinal parasitic diseases, and Fungal infections. He coordinated more than thirty years of research on malaria and several parasitic diseases which led to strategies that have impacted the decision-making of malaria management policies.
Prof Gaye is a strong advocate for increasing the support for malaria control in Africa and the development of science in the continent; he recently organized the 7th Pan African Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Conference in Dakar in April 2018 attended by 2100 participants and the third DELTAS annual meeting in 2019.
He received the Senegalese Presidential Prize in Sciences and was elected as an International Distinguished Fellow by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Health (ASTMH)
Prof Gaye has mentored several young African scientists, helping them to obtain a professorship or positions in research institutions and health programs.