Suzanne Chanteau (born 27 June 1952)[1] is a French Polynesian medical researcher who directed the Pasteur Institute in New Caledonia from 2008 to 2013.
She is notable for developing rapid diagnostic tests for plague, cholera, and bacterial meningitis.
[2] In 2002 she was appointed director of the Pasteur Institute's research center in Niger, studying Meningitis.
[1][2] In 1999 she was made a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite.
[2] In September 2019 she was made an officer of the Order of Tahiti Nui.