Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah (M.D., Ph.D.), is Professor of Infectious Diseases at Paris Cité University, Director of the ANRS Emerging infectious disease and Head of Infectious Disease Department at Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris.

Doctor Yazdan Yazdanpanah became an M.D. from the Lille School of Medicine, France in 1996. He qualified from the same institution first as a hepato- gastro-enterologist in 1996 and next as infectious disease specialist in 2002. He obtained a Master of Science Degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, US, in 2000, and a Ph.D. in public health from the Bordeaux School of Public Health in 2002. In 2006, he became Professor of Infectious Disease at Lille University Hospital.

His research interests include the clinical epidemiology of HIV, viral hepatitis and emerging infectious diseases, and the pharmaco-economics of antimicrobial agents.

He was one of the initiators and coordinators of Inserm “REACTing » (REsearch and ACTion targeting emerging infectious disease) which goal was to optimize and coordinate the existing research capacities during emerging and re-emerging infection threats. In February 2017, he was appointed Director of the Thematic Institute “Immunology, Inflammation, Infectiology, and Microbiology” of Inserm. Yazdan Yazdanpanah was Chair of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness International Network (2018-2020) and Chair of « The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership » (EDCTP) board (2018-2022). Since 2021, he is Director of the ANRS Emerging Infectious Disease French Funding Agency.

Professor Yazdanpanah has authored over 750 publications in Pubmed (author or investigator) and was cited on Clarivate’s “Highly Cited Researcher awards in 2024” list.