DiseaseChaser Global health advisory & consultancy
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Writing & speaking

Latest thinking

Essays on Substack, for the arguments that don't fit in a paper.

Longer-form writing on Africa's scientific and health sovereignty, published as DiseaseChaser on Substack.

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Speaking & convening

Available for keynotes, expert panels, technical rounds and media commentary.

I speak in plain language without thinning the science, and I am comfortable in front of ministries, scientific audiences and community groups on the same day.

Dr Michael Selorm Avumegah outside the entrance to Bayes Business School in London
Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London — invited to speak to the 2025 Executive Master's in Medical Leadership cohort.
May 2026

Overview of the Nipah virus vaccine strategy

Public Health Ontario Microbiology Rounds — epidemiology, diagnostics, animal models and correlates of protection for a high-fatality zoonotic pathogen with no licensed vaccine.

Webinar

Introduction to biospecimen sourcing for pandemic preparedness

Biobanking for Pandemic Preparedness, hosted by the Global Health Council with PATH — building trust, social acceptance and rapid deployability in pandemic biobanking.

Webinar

Availability and use of standards in vaccine development

Vaccinology webinar walking through the international reference standards behind comparable vaccine trial results across laboratories.

Webinar

Let's talk about COVID-19 and vaccines

OMSU '04 webinar for the Ghanaian alumni community, hosted over Zoom, covering the state of COVID-19 vaccine development from inside a UQ trial team.

Talks I give

Why the 100 Days Mission lives or dies in the laboratory Who owns the sample? Standards as invisible infrastructure Neglected tropical diseases in a pandemic-funded world What Nipah survivors know that our protocols do not Building a scientific workforce across Africa Building Wakanda Valley: Africa's path to scientific and technological sovereignty Why colonial history cannot be the whole explanation Global health's comedy of errors, and its real human cost

Upcoming events

Where to see me next.

Confirmed talks, panels and convenings, with a live countdown. Dates are managed in one place and this list updates itself as events pass.

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