Jean-Yves Nau (28 May 1952 – 8 November 2020) was a French physician and scientific journalist.
[1] Nau began his career as a schoolteacher before studying medicine and journalism.
He worked there for nearly 30 years, occasionally writing in La Revue du practicien, Revue Médicale Suisse, La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest.
He moved to the French language version of Slate magazine as a columnist.
He chaired the "journalism and public health" program at EHESP.