Dr. Arnaud Fontanet is a medical epidemiologist specializing in infectious disease 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. Fontanet is also a 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. He was named a guest public health professor at the Collège de France for 2018-19.