Mah-Séré Keita is a global health professional with 17+ years of research, patient care, project development and management experience. Over the course of her career, she has worked primarily on improving disease detection and response in low-resource settings. Keita is currently the Director of Programs at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), and has previously held leadership positions at the Catholic Relief Services -Mali, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). She holds a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology and a Certificate in Health Finance and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in pre-medicine biology from Boston College.