Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma received his medical doctor degree from the Medical University of Gabon and PhD from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. He was trained in epidemiology and clinical trials at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma is currently the head of clinical operations at the Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Gabon, and professor of implementation research at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the University Medical centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in Germany. He is working on conducting phase I to IV clinical trials in the field of malaria and other poverty-related infectious diseases and leading a dedicated multinational and interdisciplinary team of clinical and biological researchers. He and his colleagues' research mainly focuses on maternal and child and adolescent health and the development and implementation of drugs for poverty-related infectious diseases.