Hervé Bourhy
PhD, veterinarian and clinical human biologist, Prof. at the Institut Pasteur, Paris
Prof. Hervé Bourhy graduated as a veterinarian and, in 1992, completed his PhD at the Paris Sorbonne University on the consequences of lyssavirus diversity on diagnosis, epidemiology and prophylaxis. He is also trained as a clinical biologist in human medicine (Ministry of Health). Prof. Hervé Bourhy is currently based at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France.
He heads the Global Health Department, the Lyssavirus, Epidemiology and Neuropathology Laboratory, the WHO Collaborating Center for Rabies Reference and Research and the National Reference Center for Rabies. He has contributed to many WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies and is a member of the WHO Rabies advisory panel. He has also provided expertise to other international bodies (ECDC and WOAH). He is involved in many training and teaching activities (Master degrees with French Universities, MOOCs). He is coordinating the International Course on Rabies Control and Elimination co-organised with WOAH, WHO and HSET (8 editions already completed). His research activities mainly aim to generate a paradigm shift in the way rabies is monitored, studied and controlled, bringing it into the era of One Health and Precision Public Health. His work focuses on questions relating to disease persistence and dispersion, reservoir dynamics (dogs, bats), crossing of the species barrier and modalities and physiopathological consequences of the neurotropism of viruses such as rabies virus and SARS-CoV-2 and development of new antiviral strategies against the rabies virus and SARS-CoV-2. These research activities are done in close collaboration with many partners and colleagues in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, including the Institut Pasteur International Network and are supported by national, European (ECDC) and international fundings. He has published more than 210 papers in peer reviewed international journals. (https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/herve-bourhy/)