Philippe Guerin, MD, MPH, PhD
Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
Philippe J. Guerin is the Scientific Director of Epicentre. After working as a physician in Nepal in 1992-1993, Dr. Guerin joined MSF in 1996 where he worked as a medical coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo and on the Thai-Burmese border. He joined Wellcome trust unit in Thailand in 1999 working on malaria and tuberculosis. From 2000 to 2003, first as a fellow of the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), then he worked as a senior scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Public health working on diarrheal diseases and meningococcal meningitis. Dr Guerin subsequently began his current position at Epicentre in 2003, where he has been very intensely involved in different aspects of Human Clinical Research and Epidemiology of infectious diseases in developing countries.