History

Senegal hosts the first Advanced Course on Diagnostics in French on the African continent (Afro-ACDx).

Opening of the Youssouf Issabré maternity hospital in Mali.

Opening of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory, a level 3 biosafety laboratory, at the Institut Pasteur in Tunis.

IRD and the Mérieux Foundation renew their agreement and strengthen their cooperation on healthcare and research relating to infectious diseases

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory – Centre of diagnostics and expertise for tuberculosis and mycobacteria in Casablanca.

Inauguration of diaTROPIX rapid diagnostic test production unit at Institut Pasteur of Dakar

Launch of APRECIT project to improve latent tuberculosis screening and care

photo credits: Institut Pasteur 

Launch of SEALAB project to strengthen lab networks and epidemic response in Southeast Asia

The Mérieux Foundation and its partners mobilized against COVID-19

Inauguration of the Alain Mérieux High School in the village of Mahatsara, built with the Akamasoa association

Launch of Phase 3 of RESAOLAB – West African Network of clinical biology laboratories

Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory at the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB) in Goma

New massive open online course (MOOC) on Quality Management, created with AFNOR and Institut Pasteur

10th Anniversary of the Advanced Course on Diagnostics (ACDx), created with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Inauguration of a new health center for vulnerable populations in the Bekaa plain

20th anniversary of the Advanced Course of Vaccinology (ADVAC), created with the University of Geneva

The Bachelor of Applied Medical Sciences (BAMS) professional training program for senior lab technicians integrated into the State University of Haiti

Launch of the study on lower acute respiratory infections in Rohingya refugee camps to determine the healthcare interventions needed

Inauguration of the Laboratories Directorate and Continuing Training Center Inaugurated in Niamey, part of the RESAOLAB project

Inauguration of the National Laboratories Directorate and Continuing Training Center in Conakry, built through RESAOLAB

Launch of the first health education kits for children with the Malagasy Ministry of Public Health

Launch of the new Global Task Force on Cholera Control strategy to reduce cholera deaths by 90% by 2030

Inauguration of a second mobile laboratory provided to G5 Sahel member countries

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Foundation at the Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Inauguration of the first Food Safety Laboratory in Vientiane

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Phnom Penh, following renovation work and strengthening of the technical capacity of the laboratory

Inauguration of the “Maison Bénédicte”, a training and community center for young people

The Christophe Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease becomes the Center of Infectiology Lao Christophe Mérieux following official recognition by the Laos Ministry of Health

Inauguration of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease with a Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in the Fundhacre Hospital in Rio Branco

Inauguration of the SPHaitiLAB project to help improve the health of Haiti’s population by conducting analyses and offering strategic advice on laboratory policy

Launch of the I-Lab project in an effort to help Senegal’s National Laboratory Directorate implement an automated system for collecting epidemiological data from laboratories

Launch of the LAB-NET project in Guinea to establish a dedicated surveillance system for viral hemorrhagic fevers

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Chittagong (Bangladesh)

Launch of Mother and Child projects in Iraqi Kurdistan

Inauguration of a mobile laboratory dedicated to the detection of the Ebola virus is set up in the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease in Bamako

Four countries join the RESAOLAB network: Benin, Guinea, Niger and Togo

Creation of the Docteur Christophe Mérieux Center in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) with “Enfants du Mékong”

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Beirut

Four years after Mali, the BAMS (Bachelor in Applied Medical Sciences) training course is launched in Haiti

The first ACDx advanced diagnostics course is held at Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Inauguration of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease and the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Antananarivo

Launch of the West African Network of Biomedical Analysis Laboratories (RESAOLAB, Réseau d’Afrique de l’Ouest des Laboratoires de Biologie médicale) to strengthen the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal

Inauguration of the Christophe Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease and the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Vientiane

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Port-au-Prince

Launch of the GABRIEL network, an international network of laboratories cooperating on research into infectious diseases in developing countries

Inauguration of the Christophe Mérieux Laboratory in Beijing

Inauguration of the Emerging Pathogens Laboratory in Lyon (France)

Launch of the BAMS (Bachelor in Applied Medical Sciences) training course for laboratory technicians in Mali

The first Charles Mérieux Conference, on the theme of global health

The Fondation Rodolphe Mérieux becomes the Fondation Christophe et Rodolphe Mérieux

Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh

Inauguration of the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious Disease and the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Bamako

Reconstruction of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

Alain Mérieux becomes President of the Mérieux Foundation

Creation of the Fondation Rodolphe Mérieux

Creation of ADVAC, an international advanced course in vaccinology

Creation of the Jean Mérieux-Inserm BSL-4 laboratory in Lyon (France)

Creation of the Cent Gardes Symposium dedicated to HIV at Les Pensières Center for Global Health

Creation of Bioforce development, for training human health logisticians

The Mérieux Foundation receives public interest status

One hundred million Brazilians are vaccinated against meningitis in a huge vaccination campaign

Creation of the Association for the Promotion of Preventative Medicine (known today as the Agence de Médecine Préventive, AMP)

Creation of the Mérieux Foundation by Doctor Charles Mérieux, as a tribute to his father Marcel Mérieux

Marcel Mérieux, a student of Louis Pasteur, creates the Institut Mérieux, dedicated to the development and production of human and animal vaccines