European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Tomtebodavägen 11A
Stockholm
Sweden
SE-171 83
Biographical Sketch: Johan Giesecke is Chief Scientist and Head of the Scientific Advice Unit at the European Union Agency ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute Medical University.
From a background as infectious disease clinician, he trained epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and before joining ECDC was State Epidemiologist for Sweden for 10 years.
He has been active in the efforts to coordinate infectious disease surveillance and control within the EU, and during a one-year sabbatical to WHO Geneva in 1999/2000 he led the work on the revision of the International Health Regulations.
Some over-arching research areas are: epidemic modelling, HIV/STIs, and very late sequelae of acute infections. Outside the EU, he has done scientific work in Ethiopia and Russia, and headed a SARS mission to China for WHO in 2003.
He has published some 150 scientific papers, has written a textbook on infectious disease epidemiology and co-edited another.