Diadier Diallo holds a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and a master’s degree in Communicable Disease Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has more than 25 years of experience in malaria research and control; contributing to more than 40 publications in peer-review journals.
Dr Diallo is currently a member of the Global Fund Technical Review Panel (TRP) as malaria expert the independent review of countries’ funding requests for HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria. From 2015 to 2023, Dr Diallo was the malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation (SME) Resident Advisor for USAID and President’s Malaria Initiative funded MEASURE Evaluation and Measure Malaria projects in Mali and Niger. Dr. Diallo has a solid experience in malaria research, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, assessment of SME capacity, data quality assessments, data analysis and writing technical documents for national malaria control programs. He led the situational analysis of Mali’s disease surveillance systems and the development of an action plan for surveillance capacity strengthening and contributed to the deployment of DHIS2 as part of integration of the Mali’s HMIS.
Prior to joining ICF in 2015 to work on the MEASURE Evaluation and Measure Malaria projects, Dr Diallo worked for PATH as program advisor for the development of malaria transmission-blocking vaccine. From 2008 to 2011, He coordinated the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention research in Burkina Faso and Mali and served as Secretary of the SMC taskforce for the development of the SMC strategy. He contributed to the policy process that led to the recommendation of SMC for malaria control in 2012, and to the development of the SMC implementation field guide. Under the Malaria Clinical Trial Alliance of the INDEPTH Network, he contributed to malaria vaccine and drug trials capacity building in 10 research organizations across Africa. From 1994 to 2007, Dr Diallo led the Epidemiology and Data Management Unit of the National Center for Malaria Research and Training and the Oubritenga Demographic Surveillance System, which was covering more than 160,000 inhabitants. During this time Dr Diallo contributed to vector control research that led to the recommendation of insecticide treated bed nets for the malaria control in the 1990’s, and supported many other malaria research projects.
Dr. Diallo has also served as a Senior Consultant for the World Health Organization and Roll Back Malaria, providing technical assistance to NCMPs in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, and Democratic Republic of Congo on various activities including training, survey design, development and review of Malaria strategic plans and M&E plans.
