Epicentre Epidemiologie Epidemiology

Elisabeth Baudin joined Epicentre in November 2007. After a master on statistics, she worked for the French health insurance, CRO, and for pharmaceutical industry in France and in the US. She is now using her previous experience to carry the data management and biostatistics aspects of the therapeutical clinical trials conducted by Epicentre.

Maryline Bonnet is a lung specialist doctor and epidemiologist. Following several years in the field for Médecins Sans Frontières working on tuberculosis treatment programmes, she joined the Epicentre team in 2003 as a tuberculosis researcher.

After two missions with MSF in 1995 and 1999 as nurse, Francesco awarded in 2001 the MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He started working in Epicentre in December 2002, initially appointed for one year and a half at the Mbarara Research base (Uganda) where he coordinated the field activities of a study on the efficacy of Coartem. In June 2004 he joined the headquarter team in Paris working mostly on mortality and malnutrition surveys, surveillance system implementations and epidemic investigations. After an intermezzo of two years (2007-2009), when he attended the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training, he rejoined Epicentre, where I have been working mostly on malaria research.

David Maman joined epicentre in March 2010. Medical doctor, he previously worked as a clinician in MSF HIV programs in Malawi and Democratic Republic of Congo and completed a MSc of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medical. He initially joined Epicentre for his PHD and is now in charge evaluating impact and population outcomes in HIV programmes in high prevalence settings in Malawi, Kenya, Swaziland and south Africa. 

Sarala Nicholas is a medical statistician and has worked in the Department of Clinical Research for over 4 years.  Principal activities in the department include collaboration in the development of a software tool (FUCHIA, Follow-up and Care of HIV and AIDS) for HIV/AIDS program monitoring, evaluation and data quality assurance; data management and HIV cohort analyses and provision of technical support and training to FUCHIA users.

Prior to Epicentre, she worked in a diverse range of academic and non-academic institutions varying from communicable disease surveillance in the UK and public health in developing countries to mental health in Europe.

Elisabeth Sanchez-Padilla joined Epicentre as Medical epidemiologist in May 2008. In her role she focuses on drug-resistant tuberculosis research, mainly in African and Eastern European countries.

Elisabeth Sanchez-Padilla graduated as a medical doctor specialized in Public Health at the medical university in Malaga, Spain. She completed a master’s degree in public health at the National Health School at Madrid, Spain.