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Director, World Health Organization Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR). Confronting a World of Infectious Diseases Published proceedings Next speaker Professional Biography
Dr. Guenael Rodier is Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response (CSR). Prior to becoming director of this program, he servesd as the coordinator for Integrated Surveillance and Response from 1998-2000, the Chief of Epidemiological Surveillance and Epidemic Response on the Division of Emerging and Other Communicable Diseases from 1996-1998, as well as the Chief of the Information System and Database Development Unit in the Division of Information System Development from 1994-1996. Before joining the WHO in 1994, Dr. Rodier served for 4 years as an Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist at U.S. Navy Medical Research Unit No. 3 in Cairo, Egypt. His main professional experience includes working in filovirus hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola and Marburg), HIV/AIDS, cholera, dengue, Hantavirus, and tuberculosis, among others. Dr. Rodier's professional experience also includes missions across the globe from Argentina to Uganda to China to Thailand. Dr. Rodier's degrees include an MD and Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Cochin-Port Royal School of Medicine in Paris, France, an MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians of London. He has published more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. | 
