Dr Gérard Moulin

Gérard Moulin is a microbiologist by training. He is Research Director in the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses) and Deputy Director of the National Agency for Veterinary Medicinal Products (Anses-ANMV). Dr Moulin’s main areas of activities are antimicrobial resistance, pharmacokinetics and residues of antimicrobials, veterinary pharmaceutical legislation, benefit/risk analysis. He is involved in the Veterinary and Human French action plans on antimicrobial resistance. He is responsible for the French survey of veterinary antimicrobial sales and is part of different working groups on antimicrobial resistance. At the European Level, Dr Moulin was Chair of the Committee of Veterinary medicinal products (European Medicine Agency) (2003-2010), and Chair of the JIACRA (Joint Interagency Consumption and Resistance Analysis EU expert working group) (2014-2015). He is currently Chair of the AMEG (Antimicrobial expert group) at the European Medicine Agency and of two working groups that prepares advices for establishing a list of antimicrobials reserved to humans and a list of antimicrobials that can be banned or subject to restrictions when used off-label.

He is also the French representative for the ESVAC network (European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption). At the international level, Dr Moulin participated to tripartite WHO/OIE/FAO consultations on antimicrobial resistance, to the UN Interagency Antimicrobial Coordination Group on Antimicrobial resistance (IACG) and to the Codex task force on antimicrobial resistance (co-chair of a working group on risk management). He is involved on a regular basis in OIE activities on antimicrobial resistance and in the OIE data collection of antimicrobials. Dr Moulin was a member of the WHO-AGISAR (Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance) and member of the guideline development group for the development of a WHO guideline on Critically Important Antimicrobials in Humans. He also participates in different initiatives related to capacity building and training.