Rosemary Audu is a Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) and a Professor of Medical Virology at Lead City University, Ibadan. She is currently the head of Microbiology Department in the institute and also the Emory Nigeria Research Training Program Director. She has a strong passion and commitment to standards hence, she led the two national reference laboratories in NIMR (Center for Human Virology and Genomics, and Center for Tuberculosis Research) to obtain international accreditation to ISO 1589:2012; making them the first public health laboratories in the country to attain such feat. Furthermore, she prepared the Center for Human Virology and Genomics to be listed as a WHO prequalification laboratory for in-vitro diagnostics making it the only center in West Africa. She is a trained ASLM and ISO 15189 assessor. She has anchored several training programs for health workers on antiretroviral therapy and she mentors postgraduate students in several universities in the country. Rosemary Audu coordinates her institutional response to COVID-19 pandemic. She is a current member of the World Health Organization, Africa Medical Devices Forum for COVID19 Technical Working Group. She is a Heymann fellow of IANPHI leadership academy and a past Fogarty fellow.