page_title: Jean-Paul Gonzalez
section_title: Medical learning and research
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-Paul Gonzalez / Medical learning and research
caption_attribution_description: English: Sierra Leone - Training for Lassa fever preparedness
context_page_description: Jean-Paul Joseph Gonzalez is a French virologist. He graduated from the Medical School of Bordeaux University France.
context_section_description: Gonzalez graduated from the Medical School of Bordeaux University in 1974. By attending the same school, he also got a Master on Tropical Medicine and Hygiene as well as a Medical Diploma of the French Commercial Navy.
  This was followed by a residence in French Guiana at the Hôpital André-Bouron, located on the left bank of the Maroni River on the amazonian forest. Gonzalez was in charge of the adult, pediatric, and geriatric wards, as well of the l’Acarouani leprosy hospital and, health control over the Maroni River border between French Guyana and Suriname. He returned to Bordeaux and took the position of associate professor of Parasitology and Fundamental Sciences at Bordeaux School of Medicine and as medical attendant at the Children Teaching Hopital (Hôpital des Enfants Malades). He also worked at the Saint-André Teaching Hospital as a biologist.
  
  Gonzalez did its 18 months national duty as a Volunteer at the National Active Service (VSNA) at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis (Tunisia) where he traveled extensively for the Pasteur Institute as a WHO (World Health Organization) expert collecting mosquitoes’ larvae and identifying imago for the surveillance of malaria in Tunisia. There he published several fundamental articles on the Tunisian endemic fauna parasites (fresh water turtles, rodents and cockroaches). Gonzalez later spent more than ten years as laboratory chief, and then department head within the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) in Bangui, Central African Republic, and in Dakar.
  In 1990 he was one of the first foreign doctors to work at the high containment laboratory (BSL4) in Atlanta. There he analyzed all the samples previously collected in Central Africa in search of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever traces including Ebola and Marburg, Arenavirus, Hantavirus, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic virus and others. In the late 90s he began working as a professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine; focusing on arboviruses and hemorrhagic viral fevers including Argentinian, Bolivian, Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Dengue fevers among others.
  Since the early 1980s to date he continues to study, train and give expertise on Viral Hemorrhagic fevers including, among others, a follow up on Ebola fever (alias Ebolavirus Disease) and other high consequence pathogens.
  From 2008 to 2012 he was appointed as General Director of the International Center of Medical Research of Franceville, Republic of Gabon (CIRMF). Appointed there by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and, then nominated at the direction position by the Gabon President (H.E. Omar Bongo), he intensively participate to the development of innovative field of research of interest for Gabon’ public health, including preparedness and response of high consequent pathogens, One Health approach as a tool for public health improvement, co-founded the Central African Network for Sickle Cell Study (REDAC), among other advancements.
  In 2012, he joined Metabiota, Inc. as Senior Staff Scientist, where he uses his expertise on emerging viral disease, biosafety, biosecurity and bio-surveillance, and trains scientists from low income countries of Africa and Eastern Europe. In 2017 he was appointed at Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence for Animal and Zoonotic Diseases (CEEZAD), Kansas State University (KSU). Where his work focuses extensively on zoonosis, perpetuating also his engagement on One Health approach (One Health News Letter) and Global Health.
  He has published more than 250 peers reviewed (NCBI) scientific papers, books and book chapters.
caption: Jean Paul Gonzalez and team training public health workers for viral hemorrhagic fever preparedness and response
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