Amadou Alpha SALL is virologist titular of a Doctorate in public health. He is currently General Administrator of the Institute Pasteur of Dakar (IPD). His research and valuation concentrate mainly on the diagnosis, the ecology and the evolution of the arbovirus and viruses of the hemorrhagic fevers. He published more than 100 articles, a book on the viral diagnosis and gave more than 200 scientific papers to international meetings. Dr SALL is member of the Expert groups for WHO, OIE and Chairman of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN).