Stoeckel, DVM

Chairman of the Board

Dr. Philippe Stoeckel is the chairman of the board of AMP. In 1972, along with Dr. Charles Mérieux, chairman of the Merieux Foundation, and Prof. Jacques Monod, director of the Institut Pasteur, he founded AMP.

From 1977-1986, he served as the secretary of the Forum for the Advancement of Immunization Research (FAIR), a nonprofit organization created with Dr. Charles Mérieux, Dr. Jonas Salk, and Dr. Hans Cohen to coordinate the development of a new inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and to improve immunization in resource-poor settings. In 1983, in collaboration with the Mérieux Foundation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), he created the Institute for Development of Applied Epidemiology (IDEA), based in Les Pensières, Veyrier-du-Lac (France), to provide field epidemiology training for health professionals. From 1988 to 1992, he served as president and COO of Mérieux Institute in the U.S.

Dr. Stoeckel holds a DVM from the National Veterinary School of Alfort (France) and a master’s in epidemiology from the Institut Pasteur. He also attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.