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Flavio Finger

Epidemiology, Operational Research and Analysis of Infectious Disease Outbreaks at Epicentre MSF

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Flavio joined Epicentre in 2019 where he supports MSF operations by providing epidemiological insights into Ebola, Measles, cholera, COVID-19 and other outbreaks and through operational research. He is passionate about reinforcing the links between classic field epidemiology and modern analytic and data-driven approaches and coordinates a group of epidemiologists based in Europe and the DRC. He leads a number of research projects, such as:

• A multi-site observational study on the effectiveness of Case-Area Targeted Interventions (CATI) to rapidly contain cholera outbreaks
• A pilot study on the deployment of cholera rapid diagnostic tests in routine surveillance
• A multi-country retrospective analysis of the impact of reactive Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) campaigns

In addition to his work at Epicentre, Flavio is the chair of the Global Task Force for Cholera Controls Epidemiology Working Group. He previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on methods to better understand the mechanisms driving Cholera, Diphtheria and Ebola outbreaks and their spatial propagation, in addition to supporting partner organisations in the field. He holds a PhD entitled “Spatially Explicit Modelling of Cholera Epidemics” from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.