About the author

Antoine Flahault was formerly a public health intern, doctor of medicine, doctor of biomathematics, professor of public health at Université Paris Descartes – public health practitioner at Hôtel Dieu de Paris ; he was former head of the public health department at Tenon hospital, Paris. He headed the Sentinelles research team at Inserm-UPMC (UMR-S 707) and the WHO Collaborating Centre for electronic disease surveillance. He co-ordinated a research programme bringing together disease surveillance, preventive epidemiology and mathematical modelling. In collaboration with WHO, he developed the international ‘flu monitoring system (FluNet). In 2006 he was responsible for setting up an interdisciplinary unit for research into Chikungunya and since 28 November 2007 he has been responsible for a research and monitoring unit into emerging diseases in the Guyana and Caribbean region. He was appointed director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP, School of Public Health, which belongs to Sorbonne Paris Cité, a confederal French university) from 1 January 2008. He has been elected as president of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) in 2010-2011. He has been elected as Correspondant Member at the French Academy of Medicine in December 2009.

As at Novembre 2011, he had 218 scientific publications listed on Medline.

Selection of recent papers

Haines A, Flahault A, Horton R.
European Academic Institutions for Global Health. Lancet. 2011 Jan 29;377(9763):363-5.

Flahault A.
First estimation of direct H1N1pdm virulence: From reported non consolidated data from Mauritius and New Caledonia.
PLoS Curr Influenza. 2009 Aug 23:RRN1010.

Flahault A, Vergu E, Boëlle PY.
Potential for a global dynamic of Influenza A(H1N1). BMC Infect Dis. 2009 Aug 12;9:129.

Flahault A.
[The epidemiology of influenza pandemics/Epidémiologie des pandémies grippales]. Rev Mal Respir. 2008
Apr;25(4):492-6. French.

Cauchemez S, Valleron AJ, Boëlle PY, Flahault A, Ferguson NM.
Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from Sentinel data. Nature.
2008 Apr 10;452(7188):750-4.

Carrat F, Flahault A.
Influenza vaccine : The challenge of antigenic drift. Vaccine. 2007 Aug 3.

LeMenach A, Takala S, McKenzie FE, Perisse A, Harris A, Flahault A, Smith DL.
An elaborated feeding cycle model for reductions in vectorial capacity of night-biting mosquitoes by insecticide-treated nets. Malar J. 2007 Jan 25.

Parola P, de Lamballerie X, Jourdan J, Rovery C, Vaillant V, Minodier P, Brouqui P, Flahault A, Raoult D, Charrel RN.
Novel chikungunya virus variant in travelers returning from Indian Ocean islands. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Oct 12.

Massin L, Legrand J, Valleron AJ, Flahault A.
Modelling outbreak control for pneumonic plague. Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Nov 23.

Flahault A, Blanchon T, Dorleans Y, Toubiana L, Vibert JF, Valleron AJ.
Virtual surveillance of communicable diseases: a 20-year experience in France. Stat Methods Med Res. 2006 Oct 15.

Legrand J, Grais RF, Boelle PY, Valleron AJ, Flahault A.
Understanding the dynamics of Ebola epidemics. Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Sep 26.

Le Menach A, Vergu E, Grais RF, Smith DL, Flahault A
Key strategies for reducing spread of avian influenza among commercial poultry holdings: lessons for transmission to humans. Proc Biol Sci. 2006 Oct 7.

Flahault A, Vergu E, Coudeville L, Grais RF.
Strategies for containing a global influenza pandemic. Vaccine. 2006 Nov 10.

Legrand J, Vergu E, Flahault A.
Real-time monitoring of the influenza vaccine field effectiveness. Vaccine. 2006 Nov 10.