Prof. Dr. Antoine Flahault

Prof. Dr. Antoine Flahault (MD) is a Full Professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Geneva (in 2014) where he is the founding director of the Institute of Global Health, at Campus Biotech. He earned his PhD in biomathematics from Université Paris Diderot in 1991. He was elected the Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health in Zürich for the years 2023–24. He has been president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), co-director of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA), and president of the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA). He conducted research in the mathematical modeling of communicable diseases, chaired the WHO Collaborative Centre for Electronic Disease Surveillance, and coordinated research on Chikungunya in the 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)). He is a member of the Académie Suisse des Sciences Médicales (Bern) and a corresponding member at Académie Nationale de Médecine (Paris). He is the EiC of Epidemiologia and on the Editorial Board of IJERPH. His research interests include Public Health, Epidemiology, Global Health, Mathematical Modeling, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Prevention at large.