He chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of Afrique One Aspire [17], a Wellcome Trust-funded African Research Consortium for Ecosystem and Population Health comprising 11 universities and research institutes. He is an advisor to the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicine (GALVmed)-administered AgResults Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Challenge Project [18]. He sits on the judging panel of the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicine (GALVmed)-administered AgResults Brucellosis vaccine prize competition [19].