The Institut Pasteur International Network | Severe Influenza in Africa and Asia

The Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN) is a partnership of 32 research and public health institutes on five continents. The network was born from the will of Louis Pasteur to contribute, through high quality research activity, to the fight against infectious diseases directly in countries where they emerge.

With its global presence added to a long history of making important public health and biomedical science contribution worldwide and the top-level expertise of its scientists, the IPIN is well-positioned to perform surveillance for diseases with pandemic potential such as influenza. Most of the IPIN institutes have survived political unrest and social upheavals, attesting to their integral role in the public health infrastructure of host countries. -

” The Institut Pasteur International Network is unique in its global geographic presence but also in the diversity of its activities, varying from fundamental research to diagnosis and routine vaccination.” Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Honorary President of the IPIN

In this project, among the broad geographical coverage of the IPIN, focus is put on the African continent while preserving a strong link with Southeast Asia for the natural history of avian influenza (see brown bullets below, click on the map to get a closer view).

-Here you can download the Institut Pasteur International Network Report 2010 :

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