Marie-Amélie Degail

Marie-Amélie Degail (WHO) is a field epidemiologist with experience in European National Public Health institutes, in INGOs both in the field and at headquarters (Médecins du Monde, Aide Médicale Internationale, Médecins Sans Frontières, Epicentre) and with WHO. She holds a Master of Public Health from the Institut de Santé Publique et de Développement (ISPED), a master's degree in health Geography and a master's degree in management of Humanitarian Crises. Marie-Amélie completed the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) in the United Kingdom, in 2011 (cohort 15). She has worked on Global Health, Epidemic Intelligence and outbreak preparedness and response as well as operational research during cholera, measles, poliomyelitis, and Ebola outbreaks, and on Antibiotic resistance in humanitarian settings. Outside of Europe, she has worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for over 3 years, in Lebanon for 7 months, in Haiti and in Guinea on several missions, as well as in the United States of America. In February 2019, Marie-Amélie joined the Field Epidemiology Support team as Epidemiologist in the WHO Health Emergencies department and led the Acute Response Monitoring team. Since January 2022, Marie-Amélie is part of the Surveillance Systems Department of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme. She has been the IOA Lead for WHO since June 2021.