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HARDtalk: Professor Christian Happi, Director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Nigeria

Christian Happi: Can Africa become a world leader in vaccine development?

Professor Christian Happi, Director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Nigeria

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Prof Happi believes Africa could become a centre of knowledge on diseases such as Covid-19

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Prof Christian Happi, who believes Africa could become a global centre of knowledge about infectious diseases such as Covid-19. How realistic is his vision?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Professor Christian Happi, whose ground-breaking research is helping tackle diseases that kill thousands every year. He gave up a career at Harvard University in the US and moved back to Africa, where he is setting up a world-class laboratory in Nigeria which will have a pandemic early detection system. He believes Africa could become a global centre of knowledge about infectious diseases such as Covid-19. How realistic is his vision?

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