Research in Cameroon focuses on the interface between human and animal populations. Through studies in health care settings, wildlife sanctuaries, and with hunters and wild animal populations, GVFI works to assemble and analyze collections which may hold clues to preventing the next HIV. Collaborators include the Centre de Recherche de Santé des Armées, the Care & Health Program, the Cameroon Ministry of Public Health, the Cameroon Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, the Ministry of Forestry and Wild Life, the Ministry of Livestock Fishering and Animal Industry, the Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection, the Limbe Wildlife Centre, Mvog Betsi Zoo, and Mefou National Park.

This collaborative site includes partners from the UCLA School of Public Health, the DRC Ministry of Public Health, the Kinshasa School of Public Health, and the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale. The research includes the identification of disease reservoirs, outbreak investigation, and studies to monitor the flow of pathogens from animals to humans.

This collaborative site includes partnership with the University of California, Berkeley. The research includes studies to identify the diversity of microorganisms among hunted wildlife. 

This collaborative site includes partners from the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, East China Normal University, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Entomological Institute/South China Institute of Endangered Animals, and the Australian Biosecurity CRC. The site focuses on the collection of specimens from animals and targeted human populations (wildlife market workers) in Guangdong Province, with the aim of preventing pandemics.

This collaborative site includes partnership with the Tropical Medical Research Program Microbiology Laboratory at the Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane. The research includes studies to identify the diversity of microorganisms among hunted wildlife. 

Lassa fever is an arenavirus capable of causing hemorrhagic fever the occurs throughout portions of West Africa. The highest reported incidence of Lassa fever in the world is in eastern Sierra Leone. GVFI Chief Science Officer Dr. Joseph Fair has been associated with the WHO-led Mano River Union Lassa Fever Network (MRU-LFN) since its formation by WHO and other partners in Sierra Leone. GVFI has been working with the MRU-LFN for the past 2 years and is working to build capacity for Lassa virus detection, analysis of clinical pathogenesis, clinical drug trials, and assessment of environmental risk factors through installation of advanced technologies and training of laboratory personnel. Ongoing GVFI projects investigate microclimatic factors that influence Lassa prevalence, develop diagnostic tools, and evaluate clinical parameters that could allow prediction of disease outcome and validate disease models.

GVFI works in Gabon with the International Center for Medical Research in Franceville, (French acronym CIRMF), which is a leading laboratory and clinical research center for the study of filoviruse infections. Our work in Gabon, led by long-time collaborator Dr. Eric Leroy, DVM, Ph.D, focuses on regional zoonotic virus discovery, the quest to find the origins of highly pathogenic human viruses, and provides a major source of samples from patients with suspected filovirus infection (including Ebola and Marburg viruses).