Biography:

Prof. Astagneau is medical doctor, infectious diseases specialist, graduate at Pitié-Salpétrière School of medicine, Paris, in 1991, and received a PhD degree in epidemiology and public health in 1994. His main research activity focused on infection control (more than international 150 publications - ref. ORCID). He is now professor of medicine, head of the Centre for prevention of healthcare-associated infections and associated researcher at the Institute of epidemiology and public health at Sorbonne University, Paris, France. He participates to infection control initiatives at the Ministry of health, Public Health France, and the European Centre for disease prevention and control.