Alassane Dicko

Alassane Dicko holds an MD from the University of Bamako, a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the University of Maryland and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Bordeaux, France.

His research focuses on improving the ways of preventing and treating malaria in Malia and sub-saharan Africa. He has been a pioneer in the development of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention, a control measure now being deployed widely in many countries of the Sahel and sub-Sahel where malaria transmission is highly season. He is working with international partners on strategies to improve it through addition transmission blocking drugs and /or seasonal vaccination. He has initiated and developed two research field sites in Ouelessebougou and Bougouni in Mali with trained staff and state of art equipment to conduct Phase 1, 2 and 3 vaccines and drug trials. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Royal Society’s Africa prize for his work on the prevention of malaria in African children. Dicko has coauthored more than 90 peer review publications including in high impact journals such as Lancet and NEJM.