WP3 (Interdisciplinary Research) Co-Coordinator
Senior Researcher in the GHiGS team, UMR Inserm / University of Bordeaux 1219 / EMR 271 IRD – France
Olivier Marcy is a clinical epidemiologist and researcher at the University of Bordeaux and research director at IRD (French Institute for Research and Sustainable Development). He has worked for more than 10 years as a clinician and public health program manager in sub-Saharan Africa (Republic of Congo) and South East-Asia (Cambodia). His research focuses on diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children and TB-HIV co-infection in adults and children. He is the project lead of the Unitaid-funded TB-Speed project on childhood TB diagnosis with research ranging from decentralization and implementation challenges to accuracy of diagnostic algorithms for vulnerable children. He is the current chair of the NIAID-funded TB-SRN international cohort on pulmonary TB in adults. He is also involved in the IPORA interdisciplinary and policy-oriented research platform where he is developing research on impact of air-pollution on respiratory health in urban settings in Africa..
