Antoine Flahault MD, PhD in biomathematics, is full professor of public health at Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris Cité, Bichat Hospital, Inserm UMR 1137 since October 2025, and Honorary Professor of the University of Geneva where he was the founding director of the Institute of Global Health, at Campus Biotech (2014-2025).
He is former director of the Swiss School of Public Health (Zürich). Appointed as full professor at Sorbonne Université in 2002 he was the founding director of the French School of Public Health (EHESP, Rennes, 2007-2012), and former president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).
He has conducted his research in mathematical modelling of communicable diseases; has chaired the WHO collaborative Centre for electronic disease surveillance; has coordinated research on Chikungunya in Indian Ocean and in French Caribbean Islands (Inserm Prize, 2006); was scientific curator of a large exhibition Epidemik, la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, Rio and Sao Paulo, 2009-2013); was member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force (2020-21). He chairs the High-Level Expert Group on COVID-19 and Monkeypox at WHO-Europe (2021-22).
He was elected as a corresponding member at Académie Nationale de Médecine (Paris). He is member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He has chaired in 2016 the World Health Summit and its Academic Alliance, and the Geneva Health Forum (2016-25. He has more than 350 scientific publications referenced in Medline. He is the author of « Covid, le bal masqué » (in French, Editions Dunod, 2021) and « Prévenez-moi ! Une meilleure santé à tout âge » (in French, Robert Laffont, 2024), and « Prévention Positive. Une meilleure santé sans interdits et sans excès » (Flammarion, 2025).