Dr. Julien A. Nguinkal is a Bioinformatician and Computational Scientist specializing in public health genomic surveillance and bioinformatics capacity building. He currently serves as a Senior Bioinformatician in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) in Hamburg, Germany, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Antimicrobial Research Unit, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dr. Nguinkal has broad expertise in NGS pipeline development, genomic epidemiology, and pathogen genomics. He supports surveillance and epidemic preparedness across Africa through strategic collaborations with National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs), regional networks, and regional organizations (e.g. EAC, CEMAC). His contributions span antimicrobial resistance (AMR) monitoring, viral and bacterial outbreak response, and the integration of genomic data into national public health decision-making. As a Bioinformatics consultant and trainer for Africa CDC under the Pathogen Genomics Initiative, he co-develops regional training programs and provides technical guidance to public health laboratories across Member States. His work focuses on optimizing reproducible bioinformatics workflows, strengthening genomic surveillance systems, and developing scalable, user-oriented analytical tools for infectious disease control in resource-limited settings.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1303-4520
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