Mireille Dosso

Mireille Carmen Dosso (born 1952) is a Comorian-born Ivorian microbiologist and virologist.

Appointed director of the Pasteur Institute in Abidjan in 2004, she has recently become one of the leading Africans to be involved in the fight against COVID-19.

She then attended the medical department at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, earning a doctorate in 1980, the first woman to do so.

[2] Appointed director of the Pascal Institute in the Ivory Coast in 1972, she now forms part of the scientific committee responsible for monitoring progress on COVID-19, the only woman member.

[6] In 2011, she was awarded the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Prize for Scientific Women.