Valérie Briand, MD, PhD, is a medical epidemiologist whose main expertise is on maternal and child health, with a focus on malaria in pregnant women and children in Africa. She has coordinated and participated in several longitudinal studies to document the epidemiology of malaria in pregnancy (MiP) and during infancy, as well as randomized clinical trials for the prevention of MiP.
Since February 2023 she has joined EPICENTRE/MSF as the head of its Department of Research, which conducts epidemiological studies and clinical trials on various tropical and emerging diseases including malaria in low- and middle-income countries.
