About The Director

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Prof. Beckie Nnenna Tagbo who holds a PhD and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London; is a fellow/life-member of West African College of Physicians. She is the Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria; a Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health affiliated to the Institute of Maternal and Child Health / Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla Campus. Also a Chief Consultant Paediatrician at the Institute of Child Health/ Department of Paediatrics, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu.
She is the Pioneer Principal investigator of the first ever FG-WHO Rotavirus surveillance research for the first time in Nigeria in 2010; Head of the team that placed Nigeria on the World Health Organization Global map of rotavirus reporting countries of the world, to WHO Global Headquarters at Geneva in 2010. She is the National Principal investigator of the first ever conducted WHO Global Headquarters Geneva / Federal Government polio vaccine randomized controlled, multi-centre clinical trial in Nigeria from 2016 – 2017. For the past decade, she has also been involved in other new vaccines surveillance activities and has thus generated tremendous molecular and epidemiological data. She and her team trained, established and mentored WHO AFRO Fed Govt / WHO AFRO rotavirus surveillance/ research sites at University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in 2013, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital Bauchi, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria both in Sept 2017. She has achieved Outstanding Reviewer (Vaccine journal 2017, was awarded this recognition as one of the top 10th percentile of reviewers for the Journal, in terms of the number of manuscript reviews completed in the last two years); also awarded a Recognized Reviewer (for Vaccine journal 2016).
Prof Beckie Tagbo is the Chair of the WHO AFRICAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON VACCINE SAFETY (AACVS).

Consultations

To Governments and international agencies/organizations
• WHO Headquarters in Geneva,
• WHO African Region,
• WHO Abuja,
• NPHCDA/FMoH,
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