Prof. Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma ist he head of clinical operations at the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Gabon and professor of implementation research at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the University Medical centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in Germany. He has a medical doctor degree from the medical university of Gabon and was trained in epidemiology and clinical trials at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK and obtained a PhD from the university of Leiden, Netherlands.

Professor Mombo-Ngoma has a track record of conducting phase I to IV clinical trials in the field of malaria and other poverty related infectious diseases and he is leading a dedicated multinational and interdisciplinary team of clinical and biological researchers with key research interests on maternal and child and adolescent health and the development and implementation of drugs for poverty related infectious diseases.