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Institut de santé globale
Programmes d'enseignement et de recherche
Genève accueille la plupart des acteurs majeurs de la santé globale: l'Organisation mondiale de la
Santé, l'ONUSIDA, le Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme, le CICR,
GAVI, FIND, MSF et d'autres ONG et des fondations, et des représentations permanentes
diplomatiques de l'ONU pour les plus de 140 pays. La création de l'Institut de santé globale a été
inspirée par une volonté commune de développer la santé globale à la Faculté de médecine de
l'Université de Genève. Il se trouve dans les installations de Campus Biotech partagées par
l'Université de Genève et l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Antoine Flahault MD, PhD in biomathematics is the founding director of the Institute of Global
Health. He has been appointed as full professor of public health at Paris in 2002. He was the
founding director of the French School of Public Health (EHESP, Rennes, 2007-2012). He is co-director
of Centre Virchow-Villermé for Public Health Paris-Berlin (Université Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité),
co-director of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA), president of the Agency for
Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA).
He has conducted his research in mathematical modelling of communicable diseases; has chaired the
WHO collaborative centre for electronic disease surveillance ; has coordinated research on
Chikungunya in Indian Ocean (Inserm Prize, 2006; was scientific curator of a large exhibition
Epidemik, la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, Rio and Sao Paulo). In January 2014, he has
been appointed as professor of public health at School of Medicine, University of Geneva where he is
the founding director of the Institute of Global Health. He was elected corresponding member at
Académie Nationale de Médecine (Paris). Last January 2014, he had more than 235 scientific
publication referenced in Medline.
Link: https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/fr/
Université de Genève
Organization: (UNIGE)
Contact:
Prof.
Antoine
Flahault
Directeur de l'Institut de santé globale
Geographical coverage: Global
Santé