Virologist by training, since 2018, Dr Olivier Manigart is the Team Leader for the project PROALAB based in Burkina Faso. The backbone of the project is to supply laboratories with equipment and to support them to get the ISO15189 accreditation or equivalent, to implement biosecurity/biosafety, biomedical waste management systems, integrated biomedical samples transport systems and laboratory management informatized systems. Dr Olivier Manigart is also the Program Director of the Executive Management Unit of the regional West African BioRisk Management Network created in 2021. In this context, he has supported the training of many scientists in Biosecurity and Biosafety as well as the creation of biosecurity associations for the region.