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Back to the future – vaccines show us the way !

This year, like every year, CVD-Mali is immensely proud to add its voice and experience to the global celebration that is WHO’s World Immunization Week.

This year’s theme, ‘The Big Catch-Up’, is particularly relevant to us in Mali – and, I suspect, to a great many countries like ours, for whom routine immunization and the extended programme of immunization (EPI) are staples of public health provision and a crucial element in ensuring that our communities are able to build up resistance to a number of common, dangerous but preventable diseases which continue to wreak havoc throughout entire communities and regions.

This is particularly true this year, of course.

Restoring the balance

The COVID-19 crisis caused untold damage to communities in Mali, as it did throughout the world. That damage – to millions of lives – was both direct, as a result of infection with SARS-CoV-2, and also indirect: so many routine health interventions, on which the fragile balance of people’s health is based, particularly in low-income and remote or isolated communities, were upended.

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CVD-Mali is recruiting!

CVD-Mali, the Center for Vaccine Development, is expanding its laboratory services division to meet increasing demand resulting from a number of high-profile international trials.

Seeking to build its capacity and expertise base, CVD-Mali is looking for dynamic and experienced laboratory technicians and scientists, to work at its central laboratory facility in Bamako, Mali.

This new expansion phase is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant team in an organisation dedicated to scientific excellence and the promotion of equitable and accessible healthcare innovations for the West African region and beyond.

If you think you have what it takes to make a difference to our team, please email jobs@cvd-mali.org for more information.

We look forward to hearing from you!