The Institut Pasteur de Dakar is a Senegalese foundation recognized charity, non-profit and is allowed to contribute to public health in Senegal and Africa through research, training and education, expertise and vaccine production. IPD's vision is to prevent infectious and chronic diseases through excellence in Research, Education and Public Health. IPD's research topics include antimicrobial resistance, emerging dangerous pathogens, diagnostics, entomology, mother and child health, vaccinology, genomics, genetic epidemiology and mathematical modelling. IPD research aims focus on biomedical research, diseases risk factors (environmental, epidemiological and personal aspects like host genetics), diseases risk assessment (e.g., as usually done for yellow fever), vector competence and host genetic role in infectious diseases. One major goal of IPD is to detect, prevent and respond to epidemics.