Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult (; born 13 March 1952) is a retired French
physician and
microbiologist specialising in infectious diseases. He taught about infectious diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of
Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and in 1984, created the ''
Rickettsia'' Unit of the university. From 2008 to 2022, Raoult was the director of the ''Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes''. He gained significant worldwide attention during the
COVID-19 pandemic for vocally promoting
hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease, despite the lack of evidence for its effectiveness and the subsequent opposition from
NIH and
WHO to its use for the treatment of
COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.
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