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Ambrose has medical degree in human medicine, a master’s degree in epidemiology and a PhD in biomedical sciences. Between 1996 and 2011, Ambrose held senior management, leadership and scientific positions at the Uganda Ministry of Health, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). He has been field coordinator for multi-country malaria clinical trials and a senior fellow of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). Between 2011 and early, 2016, he was regional scientific director for East Africa of the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) and later senior clinical research fellow with the University of Oxford-KEMRI Wellcome Trust Programme. Since 2016, Ambrose has been regional advisor for health security and International Health Regulations, spearheading the efforts to build and sustain capacities to better prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease epidemics, pandemics and other public health threats before they spread