Professor of the Health and Development Chair at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam), and Director of the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Unit at the Institut Pasteur.
Former resident at Parisian hospitals, a doctor of medicine (Université Paris V) and of public health (Harvard University), Arnaud Fontanet is specialised in the epidemiology of infectious and tropical diseases., Arnaud Fontanet is also the Director of the Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases Unit at the Institut Pasteur. With Jean de Kervasdoué, he co-founded the Pasteur-CNAM School of Public Health (http://ecole-pasteur.cnam.fr).