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In 2018, Peter Dusabimana led the first Rwandan-led clinical evaluation of a heat-stable typhoid conjugate vaccine in rural Eastern Province, bypassing cold-chain dependency by validating field-ready storage protocols at ambient temperatures up to 40°C for 14 days. His team’s work directly informed Rwanda’s 2021 national rollout strategy, making it the first African country to integrate thermostable formulations into routine immunization without refrigerated transport. Trained at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and later heading immunogenicity testing at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Kigali, he insists that vaccine equity isn’t just about access, it’s about redesigning assays, adjuvants, and delivery systems for East African immune phenotypes shaped by endemic helminth exposure and nutritional gradients. He co-developed the Kigali Immunogenicity Scoring Framework, now adopted by three regional regulatory authorities to assess real-world antibody persistence in children under five.
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