Prof. Antoine Flahault Dean, EHESP School of Public Health (Ecole

Prof. Antoine Flahault
Dean, EHESP School of Public Health (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique)
EHESP, Avenue du Professeur Léon Bernard, F-35 000 Rennes
Paris-Cité EHESP, 1 Parvis Notre Dame, F-75004 Paris
Tel: +336 0766 6959
E-mail: [email protected]
Antoine Flahault, MD, PhD, is dean of the new EHESP School of Public Health (Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, http://blog.ehesp.fr/). He is professor in epidemiology, at
University Paris-Descartes Hôtel Dieu. He directed a public health department at hospital
Tenon in Paris. He was responsible of the national system of communicable disease
surveillance in general practice in France (named réseau Sentinelles http://www.sentiweb.fr),
and has developed with WHO-HQ the global monitoring of influenza (FluNet). His work in
research is conducted in a joint unit (UMR-S 707) at Institut National de la Santé et de la
Recherche Médicale and University Paris 6 where he is the director of the WHO collaborating
centre for electronic disease surveillance, coordinating a program which combines public
health surveillance, mathematical modelling and epidemiology. After having coordinated a
task force on multidisciplinary research against a chikungunya outbreak in Indian Ocean, he
was asked by the French government to coordinate a task force against dengue fever and
dengue hemorragic fever in French Caribean islands.
By January, 2010, he had 209 published references quoted in PubMed, several books (in
French) among them one best seller named “A(H1N1), le journal de la pandémie” and
supervised a vast exhibition named “EPIDEMIK” in Paris La Cité des Sciences, and moved to
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brasil in 2010.
He has been elected in January 2010 as a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of
Medicine, Paris.
Selection of recent publications
Flahault A, de Lamballerie X, Hanslik T. Symptomatic infections less frequent with H1N1pdm than with seasonal
strains.
PLoS Curr Influenza. 2009 Dec 24:RRN1140. .
Flahault A. First estimation of direct H1N1pdm virulence: From reported non consolidated data from Mauritius
and New Caledonia.
PLoS Curr Influenza. 2009 Aug 23:RRN1010.
Pelat C, Turbelin C, Hen AB, Flahault A, Valleron A. More diseases tracked by using google trends.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Aug;15(8):1327-8.
Flahault A, Vergu E, Boëlle PY. Potential for a global dynamic of Influenza A (H1N1).
BMC Infect Dis. 2009 Aug 12;9:129.
Ninove L, Gazin C, Gould EA, Nougairede A, Flahault A, Charrel RN, Zandotti C, de Lamballerie X. A Simple
Method for Molecular Detection of Swine-Origin and Human-Origin Influenza A Virus.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2009 Jun 8. [Epubahead of print].
Ansart S, Pelat C, Boelle PY, Carrat F, Flahault A, Valleron AJ. Mortality burden of the 1918-1919 influenza
pandemic in Europe.
Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2009 May;3(3):99-106..