Christian Happi

A student at Goverment Secondary School Garki washes her hands, as school resumed in Abuja, Nigeria, in late September.

Here’s one reason Nigeria has halted the spread of Ebola

October 1, 2014Health

As a boy growing up in Cameroon, Christian Happi’s heroes were American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick. His dream was to work in genetics. Now he’s doing the work he finds most meaningful. Happi’s lab was among the first to identify the presence of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria.