P-A Michaud, is honorary professor in adolescent medicine and health of the faculty of biology & medicine of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Trained as a general practitioner and fellow in adolescent Medicine (Sainte Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada), he is the founder of a Swiss university-based research group on adolescent health and his research has focused on the epidemiology of health and lifestyles of adolescents, including areas such as mental health and suicide, eating disorders, substance use, sexual & reproductive health, school health, youth friendly health services and ethics; he is the authors of ~ 240 peer-reviewed publications and ~30 chapters of book.

In 1998, he was appointed as the head of the newly founded Multidisciplinary Unit for Adolescent Health at the University hospital of Lausanne, a unit that is, since 2012, a collaborative centre of the World Health Organization. He served as the vice dean for medical education in his faculty for seven years (2007-2014).

He is the founder of Euteach initiative (European Training in Effective Adolescent Care and Health; www.euteach.com. Since 2014, he is heavily involved in organizing and delivering training sessions on an international scale and a consultant for the World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNFPA.