Dr Amadou A Sall is the CEO of Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal and director of the WHO collaborating centre for Arboviruses and viral haemorrhagic fevers. He has been chairman of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and a member of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation (CEPI) Scientific Advisory Board. Dr Sall is a virologist with a PhD in Public health and currently the chair of the Pasteur Network. He is an expert in epidemics response and control more specifically for arboviruses and viral haemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Zika, Yellow fever) and high consequence pathogens. Dr Sall is member of several expert committees for WHO (GOARN, TDR, SAGE, STAG-IH) and OIE. Dr Sall is the co-chair of the COVID 19 laboratory technical working group of Africa CDC and member of the Africa Union AFTCOR steering Committee as well as the Senegalese Committee for COVID 19.