Gerald Misinzo is a veterinarian and Professor of virology at Sokoine University of Agriculture. In 2021, he was awarded the Oliver R. Tambo Africa Research Chair for Viral Epidemics by the South Africa National Research Foundation and the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology. He is a Leader of the World Bank-designated SACIDS Africa Center of Excellence for Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals in East and Southern Africa. In 2018, he was part of the team that transformed the Southern African Center for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS) into the SACIDS Foundation for One Health, an institute for infectious diseases on behalf of the wider SACIDS partner institutions. When SACIDS revamped its 5-year Strategic Research Programme in 2022, he was peer-elected to lead the Genomics and Metagenomics research programme. He has provided genomics expertise to national authorities and was appointed member of the Special COVID-19 Committee by Her Excellency Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan, the President of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is a member of the Tanzania National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, the Tanzania Vigilance Technical Committee for Human and Veterinary Medicines and Vaccines, the Tanzania Human DNA Technical Committee, the PPR Global Research and Expertise Network for the global eradication of PPR, and the African Swine Fever Standing Group of Experts of the Global Framework for Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases for Africa.