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Zein Assad MD in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, PhD candidate in Epidemiology
Course and current status
Current position:
2024 PhD candidate in Clinical Epidemiology, Pierre Louis School of Public Health: Epidemiology and Biomedical Information Sciences, Paris Sorbonne University, Paris Cité University, Paris, France
"Modelling serotype replacement following pneumococcal conjugate vaccines"
IAME (Infection, Antimicrobials, Modelling, Evolution) Research Unit, INSERM UMR 1137, Team EPIC (rEducing the burden of Pneumococcal disease In Children), Prof. Naïm Ouldali
2024 Young ESPID Representative for France, European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
2024 Member of the Steering Committee of the French Network of Young Infectious Disease Specialists (RéJIF)
2023 Member of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Group (GPIP)
2022 Member of the Tropical Paediatrics Group (GPTrop)
Previous positions:
2022- 2024 Senior Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Department of General Paediatrics and Intensive Care Unit, Cayenne Hospital, French Guiana, France, Prof. Narcisse Elenga
Paediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Department of General Paediatrics, Paediatric Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine, Robert Debré University Hospital, APHP, Paris, France, Prof. Albert Faye
2021 - 2022 Junior Fellow in Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Department of Microbiology, Caen University Hospital, Prof. Simon Le Hello
Department of Infectious and Tropical Medicine, Caen University Hospital, Prof. Renaud Verdon
2016 – 2021 Resident in Paediatrics, Caen-Normandy University, Prof. Jacques Brouard
2019 - 2021 Master’s in Public Health, specialization in infectious risks at Pasteur-Cnam School of Public Health, Pasteur Institute, Prof. Arnaud Fontanet
"Association of the PCV13 Implementation with the Incidence of Acute Chest Syndrome in Children with sickle-cell disease"
ECEVE (Clinical Epidemiology and Economic Evaluation Applied to Vulnerable Populations) Research Unit, INSERM UMR 1123, Paris Cité University, Paris, France, Prof. Corinne Alberti
Scientific summary
Zein Assad is a pediatrician specialized in infectious diseases. He worked as a fellow within the pediatric infectious disease unit at Robert Debré University Hospital in Paris, and in the department of pediatrics at Cayenne Hospital in French Guiana.
His research focuses on the epidemiology of pneumococcal diseases and viral respiratory infections in children, as well as modeling the impact of immunization programs on these infections.
During his Master's in Public Health at the Pasteur-Cnam School in Paris, he gained expertise in evaluating the impact of public health interventions using the interrupted time series analysis method. By applying this statistical approach, he assessed the impact of the implementation of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in France on the incidence of respiratory infections in children with sickle-cell disease, a population particularly at risk for pneumococcal infections.
In 2024, Zein Assad was recipient of a research grant from the Foundation for Medical Research (FRM) for his PhD in clinical epidemiology at Pierre Louis School of Public Health (ED393), Paris Sorbonne and Paris Cité University. The aim of this PhD is to model serotype replacement following the implementation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, in order to guide future vaccination programs.
This PhD is conducted within the EPIC (Reducing the burden of Pneumococcal disease In Children) team, led by Prof. Naïm Ouldali and affiliated with IAME research Unit (INSERM UMR 1137) at Sorbonne University and Paris Cité University.
