Prof NDOYE is a physician, associate professor in microbiology. He graduated in microbiology at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, then in army hospitals in France, and Pharo Institute in Marseille. He has then graduated in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel and also completed an Audit Expertise course in Hospital Hygiene at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France. For nearly 10 years, he directed Senegal's national IPC program (PRONALIN, which was the first one in sub-Saharan Africa). Since his retirement in 2012, he has worked as a consultant, mainly at the WHO level (headquarter and AFRO office), for whom he has carried out numerous expert missions, particularly in Africa. Numerous expert missions have also been carried out in Africa on behalf of the UNDP. He has led the development of national AMR plans in countries like Guinea, Niger and the governance component in Cameroon. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he worked as an IPC consultant at Afro, based in Brazzaville to support the IPC component of the response in all countries in the region. He provided technical support, either virtually or through field missions, to the development of IPC strategic plans in at least twenty African countries. He continues to carry out ad hoc missions for WHO and UNDP to support the development of IPC in African countries. Prof NDOYE received in 2022 the distinction of Grand Officer of the National Order of the Lion in Senegal, for services rendered to the nation.