François Dabis is a medical doctor and Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health (ISPED) at the University of Bordeaux. He has been the Director of the Agence nationale de Recherches sur le VIH/Sida et les hépatites virales (ANRS) since March 2017. 

Dr. Dabis has over 30 years' research experience in HIV epidemiology, prevention and global health. His scientific interests focus on these public health challenges, in both preventive and curative approaches: prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, cohorts of adults and children on antiretroviral treatment in France and Africa, operational research on epidemic control. 

François Dabis led a research team in epidemiology and global health at the Inserm Centre in Bordeaux from 2001 to 2015. 

He was Chairman of ANRS Coordinated Action 12 from 2003 to 2015, in charge of the Agency's scientific program in resource-limited countries. 

From 2003 to 2012, he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut national de la Veille Sanitaire (INVS).

To date, he has published 745 articles in international journals (Source: PubMed/Medline) and numerous book chapters; his H index is 72 (Source: Web of Science). In 2012 and 2017, François Dabis coordinated the publication of two editions of a French reference work on field epidemiology.

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