Prof. Antoine Flahault
Honorary Professor of the University of Geneva and former founding director of the Institute of Global Health
Antoine Flahault MD, PhD in biomathematics. He was appointed as full professor of public health in 2002. He was the founding director of the French School of Public Health (EHESP, Rennes, 2007-2012). In January 2014, he was appointed as full professor of public health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva where he was the founding director of the Institute of Global Health up to September 2025. He is now Honorary Professor of the University of Geneva and Full Professor in planetary health at the University Paris Cité (France). He has been elected as the Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health in Zürich en 2023 up to 2025. He has been president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), co-director of the European Academic Global Health Alliance (EAGHA), and president of the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA).
He conducted research in mathematical modelling of communicable diseases, chaired the WHO collaborative centre for electronic disease surveillance, and coordinated research on Chikungunya in Indian Ocean (Inserm Prize, 2006; was scientific curator of a large exhibition Epidemik, la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, Rio and Sao Paulo)). He is member of the Académie Suisse des Sciences Médicales (Bern) and corresponding member at Académie Nationale de Médecine (Paris). In September 2025, he had more than 350 scientific publications referenced in PubMed.
Link to his "leçon d'honneur", given at the Faculty of Medicineon 23 Sept. 2025: https://www.unige.ch/medecine/Flahault