Zein Assad
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  • Location : Paris, France
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Zein Assad MD in Peadiatric 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

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 this 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.

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