My name is Romain Girod. I have been a research engineer from the Institut Pasteur, specializing in medical entomology, since 2006.
I attended the medical entomology course of the Institut Pasteur in 1998 and obtained my PhD in 2001.
I have a background of nearly 30 years of experience in medical entomology research and support for entomological surveillance and vector control in Sub-Saharan Africa and Amazonian America. I started working for the MoH in La Réunion (France) in 1994 where I was in charge of vector control and also acted as a technical and scientific adviser for questions related to surveillance, prevention and control of vector-borne diseases for 10 years. I then worked during more than two years at the Institut de Médecine Tropicale of the French MoD in Marseille (France), where I was involved in entomological expertise and research for the French military forces based in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2004, I joined the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne (French Guiana), as the Head of the Medical Entomology Unit where I participated and coordinated studies on biology and ecology of mosquito transmitting malaria, dengue, chikunguny, zika. Recently, and during the last seven years, I acted as the Head of the Medical Entomology Unit of the Pasteur Institute in Antananarivo (Madagascar) where I lead research and public health programs on malaria, plague and arboviroses in Madagascar and the Southwest Indian Ocean region.
Back in France at the beginning of 2024, I joined the Scientific Direction of the Institut Pasteur on March 1st. I support the teams in charge of the implementation of the Center for Vector-borne diseases project and the Pasteur pandemics preparedness initiative.