Prof Oumar Gaye is the current Director of the Malaria Research and Capacity Development program in West and Central Africa (MARCAD) and former Head of the Department of Parasitology of the Faculty of Medicine of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD. As a Professor of Parasitology at UCAD in Senegal, Malaria advisor at the Senegalese MoH , at WHO Africa, and at the Gates Foundation, he coordinated more than forty years of research on malaria and several parasitic diseases, which led to strategies that have impacted the decision-making of malaria management policies. 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 is a founding member of RBM in West Africa. Prof Gaye has coordinated several training courses on malaria and has helped countries to establish systems for diagnostic and monitoring drug resistance; he has mentored several young African scientists, allowing them to obtain a professorship or positions in research institutions and health programs.
Prof Gaye is a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, laureate of the Presidential Prize in Sciences in 2012, and was distinguished as a ASTMH International Distinguished Fellow .

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