Dr Karim Traore is a medical doctor with a PhD degree in biology, he is also specialist in infectious diseases and anthropology. Dr Traore is a senior scientist of Bandiagara Malaria project at Malaria research and training center, faculty of medicine and dentistry of Mali. Since 2003, Dr Traore is involved in malaria clinical trials for vaccine and drug development, and epidemiological studies in both adult and children. The area of expertise of Dr Traore include epigenetics, interaction of environment and human genetic in susceptibility to infectious diseases. As senior researcher, Dr Traore is also involved in teaching parasitology and mycology, and ethics at the university of sciences, techniques, and technologies of Bamako, and the training of MDs and master’s degree students. Dr Traore has been the coordinator of an ethic consortium involving Mali, Ghana, Guinea and the catholic university of Lyon in France funded by EDCTP. Dr Traore earned his MD degree at the school of medicine and pharmacy of Mali in 2002, then successively a master’s degree in anthropo-biology, a diploma of specialization (DES) in infectious diseases at the university Cheick Anta Diop of Dakar in Senegal in 2011 and 2012, and a PhD degree at the university of Lyon, France in 2018. Since 2020 Dr Traore is an EDCTP senior fellow.