Denise Patricia Mawili Mboumba is Full Professor in Parasitology at the Université des Sciences de la Santé in Gabon. For over 15 years, she has conducted her research activities in the Department of Parasitology-Mycology within the Faculty of Medicine, focusing on parasitic diseases endemic to Gabon, notably Malaria, Filariasis and Intestinal Parasitic infections.  

She earned her PhD at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, in Germany. Currently, Prof. Denise serves as the head of the Research Unit on Infectious Agents and their Pathology, and Director of the Institute of Medical Biology at the Université des Sciences de la Santé in Gabon.