Professor Henri Bounameaux

Henri Bounameaux was born in 1953 in Liège (Belgium), did his primary and secondary education in Congo (Zaire), and his medical degrees in Basel. Specialist in internal Medicine and Angiology, his research was dedicated on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of veinous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism. As Dean of the Faculty of medicine at the University of Geneva he created in 2014 the Institute of Global Health and continuously supported the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+). He was elected in 2020 as President of SAMS where he constantly promoted the domain of public health.