Nicaise Ndembi

Nicaise Ndembi serves as the deputy director-general and regional director of the International Vaccine Institute’s Africa Regional Office. He is a faculty member of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Kanazawa University School of Medicine. He established the Partnerships for Africa Vaccine Manufacturing and developed, with John Nkengasong, the Framework for Action on Vaccine Manufacturing in Africa. He was named to the 2025 TIME 100 Health list and the 100 Most Notable Peace Icons in Africa.

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Building vaccine sovereignty: Africa’s path to resilient health security

The inequities exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic made one truth undeniable: global...