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Raoult Ratard is the Louisiana State Epidemiologist. He serves as the Louisiana Office of Public Health Chief of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section and as the consultant for the Environmental Epidemiology Section. He earned an MD from the University of Paris Medical School, France, specializing in tropical medicine, microbiology and immunology. Later, he obtained a Master of Science in Parasitology from LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, an MPH and TM from Tulane University and completed a residency of preventive medicine (public health) in Texas. He is board certified in Preventive Medicine. Dr. Ratard worked 41 years in public health, mostly in communicable disease control programs, malaria and leprosy control in Vanuatu, leprosy control in Texas, tuberculosis and STD in Louisiana, tuberculosis in North Carolina, schistosomiasis in Cameroon, and hospital infection control in Saudi Arabia. He has also taught infectious disease epidemiology at the University of South Florida School of Public Health in Tampa, FL and currently as Adjunct Professor at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans. Dr. Ratard has spent many years in TB control in Vanuatu, Louisiana and North Carolina. He has also consulted for the CDC on prevention of tuberculosis transmission in China, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria. In this capacity, he has developed some knowledge on prevention of transmission of micro-organisms through droplet nuclei.