Prof. DIAWARA Idrissa is a professor of microbiology and molecular biology at the Mohammed VI University of Sciences and Health at Casablanca Morocco (UM6SS). Since 2016, he has been working on the impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumococcal infections in Morocco. Prof. Diawara is member of several teams and research projects at the national and international levels such as: The Pneumococcal African Genome project (PAGe), The Pneumococcal Serotype Replacement and Distribution Estimation (PSERENADE) project, The Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Project (GPS), Laboratory based surveillance of invasive Pneumococcal isolates after introduction of Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Morocco, and Pertussis Surveillance in Casablanca Morocco.

He is also the laboratories coordinator and member of the scientific committee of the Moroccan Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology since June 2018. Through his experience in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the H1N1 pandemic within BSL-3 laboratories and through his training in quality assurance and biosafety, Prof. Diawara is now the instigator of the training program on biosafety, biosecurity and One Health within the Higher Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology at UM6SS. Prof Diawara is also deputy director of the Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbial Biotechnology Research Laboratory of UM6SS.

Prof. Diawara has been Deputy Director of the Mohammed VI Center for Research & Innovation (CM6RI), Casablanca, Morocco. He’s now the Technology Platform Director of CM6RI at Rabat, Morocco. Author of around forty scientific publications in scientific journals, his research activities include: microbiology, infectious diseases and vaccinology, diagnosis and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, biotechnology and microbial genomics, antimicrobial resistance, Lab quality management, One Health, biosafety and risk management in the laboratory.