Speaker 1 - Dr. Sylvie Jonckeere - Emerging Infectious Diseases Advisor (Doctors Without Borders, Belgium)
Sylvie currently serves as Emerging Infectious Diseases advisor for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders), based in Brussels. She is a medical doctor with a specialization in general internal medicine and 15 years of experience in infectious diseases. She has dedicated more than a decade to communities affected by outbreaks in low- and middle-income settings. In addition to her clinical work, Sylvie has been actively involved in bridging gaps in medical knowledge production and sharing in the field of filoviruses or drug-resistant tuberculosis. She is committed to humanitarian efforts aimed at improving access to healthcare and quality of care for most vulnerable communities
Speaker 2 - Dr. Erika Matuschek (EUCAST Development Laboratory, Sweden)
Erika Matuschek is the Head of the EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden. She has a PhD in Bioscience from Chalmers School of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. Erika is responsible for the development and maintenance of EUCAST methods, and publication of EUCAST methodology documents, quality control tables and breakpoint tables. She is also an active member in the project group for revision of ISO standard 20776-1 (reference methodology for broth
microdilution) and co-chair in the joint CLSI-EUCAST working group.
Speaker 2 - Pr. Sylvain Brisse (Institut Pasteur, France)
I combine public health surveillance and research activities. My lab in in charge of the microbiological surveillance of diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) under mandates of the French Public health Agency (Santé publique France); we provide diagnostics, expertise and clinical advice. Our research focuses on the microbial population biology and emergence of pathogenic microbial strains, vaccine escape and antimicrobial resistance. We also develop applications in diagnostics and public health, including universal strain subtype genotyping systems and nomenclatures that facilitate international epidemiological tracking and micro-evolutionary studies..
Speaker 3- M. Julien Potet (Doctors Without Borders, France)
Julien Potet has been working with Médecins Sans Frontières’ Access Campaign since 2011, where he is the senior advisor for neglected tropical diseases. He has been developing analysis on access to medicines and vaccines for several neglected diseases, notably Visceral Leishmaniasis, Ebola virus disease, rabies, diphtheria and snakebites. In addition, he has developed expertise in access to certain classes of medical products, particularly therapeutic antibodies. Before joining MSF, Julien worked with several international non-governmental organisations as an HIV treatment programme manager.
