Download Guénaël Rodier is Director, Division of Communicable Diseases

Guénaël Rodier is Director, Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security and Environment, World
Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe
From 2000 to 2010 he held several senior positions at WHO Headquarters, Geneva, including Director,
Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, and Director, International Health
Regulations Coordination. Dr. Rodier started his career in 1983 as a clinician with a focus on pediatrics
infectious diseases in the Republic of Djibouti, East Africa. In 1990 he enrolled the International Health
Programme of the University of Maryland at Baltimore and was seconded to the U.S. Naval Medical
Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt, until he joined WHO in 1994.
Dr. Rodier has been actively involved in the development of new approaches, research, tools and guidelines
for communicable disease surveillance, outbreak response and global health security; he supervised the
technical response to the SARS epidemic and the successful revision of the International Health Regulations.
He is or has been involved in major global health security initiatives and has extensive experience in the
international surveillance and control of emerging infections and epidemic-prone diseases.
Dr Rodier main degrees include a MD from Cochin-Port Royal Medical School, René Descartes University,
Paris, and an MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (recipient
of the Frederick Murgatroyd Award). He has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific peer-reviewed
publications and book chapters.
(last updated 21.09.2015)
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