Dr FOKAM is the Permanent Secretary of the National AIDS Control Committee in Cameroon; he leads the virology laboratory of CIRCB and is a Senior Lecturer of Virology and Epidemiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Buea. Dr Fokam serves an expert at the Public Health Emergency Operations Coordination Centre and member of the genomic surveillance platform in Cameroon. He is the coordinator of VIROFORUM-Africa (platform dedicated for monitoring HIV drug resistance and other viral pathogens) in collaboration with WHO, NACC, UNICEF, US CDC, Africa CDC and the Italian cooperation. He is a trained WHO Expert on in-vitro diagnostics of infectious diseases, the country representative at the WHO guideline development group on HIV test, and works as international consultant for EDCTP/EU, ICGEB, ASLM/Africa CDC, and others. Dr Fokam is a PhD on Infectious Diseases at the Faculty Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I; a postdoctoral alumnus in Medical Virology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy; and a University Diploma in Public Health – Epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health and Development, University of Bordeaux, France. At the international level, Dr FOKAM is a fellow of the HIV research for cure academy, member of the International AIDS Society (IAS), WHO HIV Drug resistance working group, American Society for Microbiology, African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists and the scientific committee of the international workshop on HIV drug resistance and treatment strategies. Dr FOKAM has co-authored over 150 scientific publications, Editor for scientific journals (Nature Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, Current HIV Research, BMC Infectious Diseases, Journal of Public Health in Africa). He holds several awards, among which the best health staff of 1st categories health facilities in 2022 in Cameroon, and best scientific communications on HIV and COVID-19 both at national and international levels.
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