Jérôme Salomon (born 4 April 1969) is a French infectious diseases physician and high-ranking civil servant. He is the French '' Directeur général de la Santé'' since 8 January 2018. He became known in France since the

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Medical career

He worked on

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s and

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at Inserm,

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, and

Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ''UVSQ'') is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent university of the federal Paris-Saclay Un ...

. He was clinic director at the

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from 1999 to 2002, then

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from 2004 to 2009.

Public service career

He was a counselor of Bernard Kouchner at the beginning of the 2000 years. In 2010, he became health expert in the

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(then

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and

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) cabinet, then counselor from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, he rallied the then beginning Macron's campaign for the

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and participated in the redaction of the health part of the candidate program. In January 2018, he was chosen by Agnès Buzyn to become ''Directeur général de la Santé''.

Coronavirus pandemic

Jérôme Salomon became known in France since the

, making daily statements about the daily trend analysis and situation within the country, the status of those diagnosed. It was said in March 2020 that his position was very difficult because he warned Emmanuel Macron as soon as 2016 that France was unprepared about the consequences of a possible pandemic but now was required to justify the current French government actions.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salomon, Jerome 1969 births Living people Paris Descartes University alumni French infectious disease physicians

Medical career

Public service career

Coronavirus pandemic

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