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John Nkengasong is a global health security award specialist with an H-index of 52 at Africa CDCVirology (Member). Has been published in The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Nature. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
John N. Nkengasong is a Cameroonian-American virologist who served as the Global AIDS Coordinator in the Biden administration from 2022 to 2025 and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy from 2023 to 2025. He previously worked as the Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2022, as well as at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nkengasong was appointed the WHO Special Envoy for Africa.
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Clin Microbiol RevLancetNat Rev ImmunolAm J Trop Med HygNature
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