Yazdan Yazdanpanah is Director of the French ANRS emerging infectious diseases agency that fund and coordinates research on HIV, Hepatitis, STIs, Tuberculosis and emerging and re-emerging infections. He is Director of Aviesan Institute of Immunology, Inflammation, Infectiology, and Microbiology which gathers the main stakeholders of this thematic in France in the frame of Aviesan (French National Alliance for Life Sciences and Health). He is the head of the Infectious Disease department at Bichat Hospital, and he is Professor of Medicine at Paris Diderot University, France. He is the Chair of « The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership » (EDCTP) board and the Vice-Chair of the « Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) board. Master of Science degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Ph.D degree in public health from the Bordeaux School of Public Health.