Pierrick Adam is Head of the Infectious Diseases Programs Control Unit in the Ministry of Health, French Polynesia. Previously he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University working on essential diagnostics and Universal Health Coverage. During his medical training he undertook residencies at Institut Pasteur in the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, and at Santé publique France in the Alert and Crisis Coordinating Unit and the Healthcare Emergencies Response and Preparedness Unit.