CONFÉRENCE : ARNAUD FONTANET – ANKARA

Conférence uniquement en anglais.

PANDEMICS: WHAT ARE THE NEW THREATS AND HOW TO PREPARE FOR THEM?

20 mai 2026 à 16h00
L’université Ankara
Salle : Ord. Prof. Dr. Abdülkadir Noyan Konferans Salonu

This conference will list the new pandemic threats and how countries should prepare for them, while drawing on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

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.

Conference only in English; free admission upon registration.