Philippe Parola was born on 16 October 1971 in Marseille (50 years old). He completed his medical studies there and specialized in Internal Medicine and Infectious and Tropical Diseases. After obtaining his Doctorate in Medicine and a Doctorate of University, he carried out postdoctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, in collaboration with the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok. A graduate of the Gorgas Expert Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine, Lima, Peru, he has a total of 5 years of experience in the tropics for care, teaching and research activities, mainly in French-speaking Africa and Asia. Philippe Parola was Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Rickettsioses and other bacterial diseases transmitted by vectors from 2010 to 2015. In the field of travel medicine, he was Director of EuroTravNet (2010–2016) and the network collaborator of the European CDC for travel medicine and tropical medicine.