Pascal Astagneau

Pascal Astagneau is a medical doctor, infectious diseases specialist, graduate at Pitié-Salpétrière School of medicine, Paris, in 1991, and received a PhD degree in epidemiology and public health in 1994. During his education period, he had a clinical and research experience on tropical diseases including a post-doc project on malaria at the CDC, Atlanta, USA. For the last 25 years, his main research activity has focused on infection control and he published more than 150 articles in international journals (ORCID). He is now professor of medicine at Sorbonne University, Paris, France, teaching hygiene, epidemiology and public health for graduate and post-graduate students at the faculty of medicine and the national university school of public health. He is also the head of the Centre for prevention of healthcare-associated infections and associated researcher at the Pierre Louis Institute of epidemiology and public health (INSERM/Sorbonne University). He was recently responsible for an interdisciplinary research programme on prevention of crisis and health protection. He also published a reference book on epidemiologic surveillance. He was a member of the French council for public health, and participates regularly to infection control initiatives at the Ministry of health, Public Health France, and the European centre for disease prevention and control (Stockholm).