SPECİAL SEMINAR : LESSONS LEARNED FROM COMPARING COVID 19 CONTROL STRATEGIES ACROSS COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE

Guest : Arnaud Fontanet 

Title : Lessons Learned From Comparing Covid 19 Control Strategies Across Countries Worldwide

Date / Time : 21, May, Thursday, 15:40 

Location : Cinema Hall

Abscract : This conference will examine how scientific knowledge and evidence informed decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic and will compare the control strategies implemented across countries worldwide.

Biography: Arnaud Fontanet is a medical epidemiologist (MD Paris V; MPH, DrPH, Harvard School of Public Health) specialized in infectious diseases epidemiology. In 2002, he joined Institut Pasteur in Paris to launch the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology unit. There, his focus has been on viral hepatitis and emerging viruses. In 2014, he was appointed as Director of the newly created Centre for Global Health at Institut Pasteur. Arnaud Fontanet is also Professor of Public Health at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, where he is Director and co-founder of the Pasteur-Cnam School of Public Health and was named in 2018-19 Guest Public Health Professor at the Collège de France. In March 2020, he was appointed to Scientific Councils advising the French government and the EC President during the COVID-19 crisis.