Dr. Hama A. DIALLO (MD, MPhil, PhD), a senior clinical epidemiologist is the current Scientific Director of Centre MURAZ, a national institute for biomedical research, MoH in Burkina Faso. He holds degrees in medicine (MD, University of Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso), in bioethics (Dipl., University of Pretoria, South Africa), in clinical research (Dipl., University Paris VII & Institute Pasteur of Paris, France), in international health (MPhil, University of Bergen/Norway) and in epidemiology (PhD, University of Bergen/Norway). Dr. Diallo has been working over 13 years in Centre MURAZ with a focus on malaria studies and maternal and child health issues. He is an expert on the topic of child mortality around birth in rural Burkina Faso, the subject for his PhD-thesis.

Dr. Diallo, a bilingual researcher (French/English) is the PI of several ongoing studies in MURAZ and a full-time lecturer of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Ouagadougou (BFA) and lecturer of bioethics at the Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso (BFA). His ambition is to provide its credentials to the interventional epidemiology in Centre MURAZ research Institute on the topic of maternal and child health.