Honorary Professor of Paediatrics, Paris-Cité VII University, France. In the vaccine field for the past 30 years (anti-infective – including vaccines – drugs’ registration from the beginning of the 90’s up to 2009 included; strategies at the French NITAG for 5 years up to 2007; independent consultant since 1999). Active Member of Infovac-France since the creation (2003). Trustee of the Coalition for life course immunization (CLCI)

Professor Catherine Weil-Olivier gained her medical degree in Paris in 1973, and a speciality in Paediatrics in Paris in 1974. She has been working at Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris since 1974 as a general hospital-based Paediatrician Assistant. Since 1989 she has been Professor of Paediatrics at the Paris VII University, France. 

For ten years (between 1995 and 2005), Professor Weil-Olivier was Head of the Department of General Paediatrics at Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (Hôpital Louis Mourier Colombes, Hauts de Seine, France). She retired in January 2006.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Professor Weil-Olivier has been working on different aspects in the vaccinology field. She was an expert for the French Drug Agency (AFSSAPS, now ANSM) from 1995 to December 2008, working in the technical group for the registration of vaccines, antibiotics and anti-virals (thus participating to the European registration since January 1999).

From 2007 to 2009 Professor Weil-Olivier was a Core Member of the European Medicines Agency Vaccine Working Party.

She was a member of the national French NITAG “Technical Committee on Vaccination” (CTV) from 2002 up to 2007, which is the consultative committee for national vaccination strategies.

She has been a member of the Influenza National Committee Against since the 1990s up to 2010, and involved in several working groups on vaccination for vaccine-preventable diseases at Direction Générale de la Santé.

At the European Centre for Control and Prevention (ECDC), Professor Weil-Olivier participated as an expert in working groups for influenza immunization (2006), European vaccine schedules (2007) and has been an observer for the European Vaccination Advisory Group (2008). Lately, she also participated to a working group on contagiousness of paediatric infectious diseases in community settings (mainly schools).

Professor Weil-Olivier is a member of several French paediatric groups, working in Vaccinology and Influenza.

She is an active Member of Infovac France since its creation (in 2003).

Since 2006, she has been an independent expert in the fields of influenza and vaccine-preventable diseases. As such, she gives conferences in France and abroad, and participates in meetings. In 2018 and 2019, she accepted teaching missions in China (15 days each, hospital-based in two different regions: Sichuan and Jiangsu) via the ECTI organization.

She was involved in the coordination of a “Vaccinology State-of-the-Art” (2006–2007, “white book” published in 2008) project with Alcimed and the French Senate.

She has been the core writer of the book “Vie des femmes: 50 ans d’avancées en médecine” (published in 2008).

Professor Weil-Olivier has contributed over 200 international publications to the paediatric infectious diseases field.

She was also a Member of the medical Scientific Committees of two Foundations (“Fondation des Hôpitaux de Paris-Assistance Publique”, over ten years starting in the 1990s followed by the “Fondation Pfizer for adolescents” for 6 years in the 2000s).

She has been a Member of the Scientific Committee of the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (CoMO) up to 2020, and is an actual trustee of the Coalition for Life Long Immunization (CLCI).

She is Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

She has five children and 14 grandchildren.