Arnaud Fontanet is Professor at the Institut Pasteur and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. A former intern at Paris hospitals, Doctor of Medicine (Paris-V University) and Doctor of Public Health (Harvard University), he specializes in the epidemiology of infectious and tropical diseases. After completing his doctoral thesis on the efficacy of mefloquine in the treatment of malaria on the Thai-Cambodian border, he spent five years in charge of an AIDS research program in Ethiopia. Since January 2002, he has headed the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. His main research topics are viral hepatitis and emerging viruses. Arnaud Fontanet is also Director of the Pasteur-Cnam School of Public Health, and Director of the Institut Pasteur Global Health Center.
People
Arnaud Fontanet
Professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and the Institut Pasteur, Visiting Professor, Collège de France
