Mardi 23 janvier 2018 à 12h00 dans le grand amphithéâtre de l'IPT, deux conférences seront proposées par le Centre de Santé Globale de l'Institut Pasteur, Paris.
Hans Hagen, directeur adjoint du Centre de Santé de Globale, donnera une conférence intiutulée "Developing a bespoke Pan-African capacity strengthening programme"
Eileen Farnon, responsable de la Task Force, "Outbreak investigation" présentera la Task Force.
La conférence est en accès libre
Biographies :
Hans Hagen :
Hans was trained as a parasitologist and medical entomologist at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1992. During his research career in the field of infectious tropical diseases, he undertook substantial field research on the transmission of river blindness, in mainly Francophone West and Central Africa. Hans has also worked in a number of laboratories in Brazil, USA, France, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, and the UK. In 1999, Hans decided to switch careers, and started his new post at the Wellcome Trust, mainly working with science communities outside the UK (India, Central Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America). In 2006, Hans was recruited by the Royal Society, to develop the Society's capacity strengthening programme for sub-Saharan Africa. This programme was initially focussed on Ghana and Tanzania, resulting in the Leverhulme - Royal Society Africa Award scheme, which was successfully launched in October 2008. This was followed by a more ambitious pan-sub-Saharan Africa programme, launched in November 2012, after obtaining substantial funding from the Department for International Development (DFID). In 2014 he was promoted to Head of Grants of the Royal Society. From 2015 to 2017, Hans worked as Chief Operating Officer for Cambridge University Health Partners, before joining Institut Pasteur as Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Health and Chargé de Mission at the Department of International Affairs, in October 2017
Eileen Farnon :
Eileen Farnon is the Director of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force in the Center for Global Health at Institut Pasteur Paris. Dr. Farnon earned her medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. She completed residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Emory University. She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2005, serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Arboviral Diseases Branch in Fort Collins, Colorado. She subsequently served as a CDC Medical Officer in Atlanta, working on viral hemorrhagic fever, parasitic diseases, transplant-transmitted infections, and global health. While at CDC, Dr. Farnon also worked as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University, in the travel and tropical medicine clinic. Dr. Farnon has responded to numerous international and domestic outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases, including Eastern Equine encephalitis, yellow fever, avian influenza (H5N1), Rift Valley fever, Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and transplant-transmitted infections. She joined Temple University School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases, and served as a Consultant on Infection Prevention and Control for the World Health Organization during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Most recently, Dr. Farnon worked as the Director of the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Program in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, coordinating responses to HAI outbreaks and multidrug-resistant organisms in the City. Dr. Farnon joined Institut Pasteur during October, 2017, and is looking forward to applying her experience in outbreak response by coordinating the involvement of Pasteur scientists in international outbreak responses within the Pasteur network and through WHO-GOARN.
