Dr Yvan Hutin

Dr Yvan J-F. Hutin is the director of the Department of Surveillance, Prevention and Control (SPC) of the AMR Division of WHO headquarters. Following his MD and specialization in hepato-gastroenterology in France and an MSc in clinical tropical medicine at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the US-CDC and completed a PhD at the Swiss Tropical Institute. He worked on public health in Burkina Faso, in Uganda and in Sweden at the European CDC. During more than twenty years at WHO at the three levels of the Organization, he initiated the Safe Injection Global Network (SIGN), assisted India in the setup of its Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP), worked on hepatitis B in China, coordinated strategic information at the Global Hepatitis Programme and was director of communicable diseases in the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region. His areas of expertise include epidemiology, prevention, care and treatment of communicable diseases, public health training, economic analyses, and financing. Dr Hutin co-authored more than 140 publications in peer review journals.