Pascal Bovet Email & Phone Number

Pascal Bovet is board certified in both internal medicine and public health (FMH, Switzerland) and holds a MPH degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He currently is a senior consultant at the division of chronic diseases at the University Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to this, he was the head of the NCD section at the department of community health of the University Medical Center of Lausanne (CHUV) and a professor of public health at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University in Lausanne. He still regularly teaches public health at the University of Lausanne and in other universities. Earlier he was practicing clinical medicine and medical research in various hospitals, including the University Medical Center, also as chief resident. He has been a consultant for NCDs for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Seychelles since 1988 until now. He led there several population-based NCD surveys and contributed to the development of various policies, including national NCD strategy, tobacco control legislation (including being the representative of the country to all the intergovernmental FCTC negotiations), fiscal measures on tobacco and sugar drinks, and guidelines for the management of hypertension and diabetes at the primary health care level. He currently collaborates with several studies and projects related to NCDs, including with the Swiss Development Agency, Swiss TPH, Imperial College (NCD Risk collaboration), Shandong University in China, Harvard University, University of Rochester (NY) and Loyola University in Chicago. He authored or co-authored >400 publications (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0242-4259). He has been serving as a technical adviser for WHO, Swiss Development Agency and the World Bank around the development or the evaluation of national NCD plans of actions or clinical guidelines in a number of countries. He led, or collaborated with, the organization of several NCD training programs with the Swiss Development Agency, CDC and WHO.

Listed skills include Epidemiology, Public Health, Prevention, Internal Medicine, and 16 others.