Dr Eric D’Ortenzio

France

Eric D’Ortenzio, MD, MPH, is a physician and an infectious diseases epidemiologist. He is currently working at ANRS-Emerging infectious diseases (Inserm) as the head of Strategy and Partnerships department. 

Prior to joining ANRS, Dr D’Ortenzio served as physician for health centers in Central African Republic and French Guiana, as field coordinator for MSF-F in Ivory Coast and in Sudan, epidemiologist for Public Health France in Reunion Island, head of the epidemiology research unit for Institut Pasteur New-Caledonia and scientific director for Solthis NGO. He has also coordinated REACTIng, a consortium on research and actions targeting emerging infectious diseases, before the merging with ANRS. 

He has 25 years’ experience in primary health care, tropical medicine, humanitarian assistance, preparedness and emergency outbreak response, epidemiological surveillance, clinical research, capacity building and partnerships in complex and limited resources settings. 

He has been trained as a Medical Doctor (Aix-Marseille University) with a specialisation in General Medicine and in Public Health & Social Medicine. He has a Master Research Degree in Epidemiology (Paris Sorbonne University). He co-authored more than 90 articles in international journal on infectious and tropical diseases.