Angus is a One Health epidemiologist with special interest in the areas of surveillance and health information systems, livestock identification and traceability, epidemiological data analysis and geographical information systems. He works across a range of species, including human health, livestock and aquatic animals, with experience in over 50 countries. He is also actively involved in developing and implementing innovative approaches to the creation of powerful and sustainable surveillance and animal health information systems, working with a multidisciplinary team using cloud-based technology and a bottom-up design philosophy.
Monique Eloit graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the Alfort National School (ENVA-France). During the 1990s, she occupied successively the positions of Assistant to the Deputy Director for animal health and protection, in which capacity she participated in setting up the national agency for veterinary products (ANMV), and Deputy Head of the Department for food quality and veterinary and plant health actions. For over six years she also acted as Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the European Convention for the protection of animals kept for farming purposes (T-AP), at the Council of Europe.At the beginning of the new millenium, Dr Eloit was appointed Director at the French Food Safety Agency (Afssa) and helped to reform the expert committees, supervised national veterinary laboratories with regard to their scientific and technical support activities, and represented Afssa on the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Committee of national agencies. In 2005, she returned to the Ministry of Agriculture, holding three appointments simultaneously, as Deputy Director General for Food, Chief Veterinary officer (CVO) of France and Delegate to the OIE where she dealt with many sanitary crises and various food safety emergencies at regional, national and international level. She joined the OIE in 2009, as Deputy Director General in charge of administration, management, human resources and regional actions. Dr Eloit’s thirty years of solid professional experience have given her an invaluable knowledge of all aspects of animal health and welfare. Since 2016, Dr. Eloit took over as Director General of the OIE and became the 7th Director General of the OIE, and the first woman to hold the position.
Delia is an epidemiologist and veterinarian with 20 years’ experience in developing countries. She is a professor for food safety at the Natural Resources Institute in UK and a joint appointed scientist leading research on agriculture-associated disease at the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya. Her research program focuses on the design and promotion of risk-based approaches to food safety in livestock products in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She is also involved in Ecohealth/One health approach to the control of zoonoses diseases and agriculture-associated antimicrobial resistance.
Pascal Hendrikx, DVM, PhD, is a veterinary epidemiologist and Inspector General of Veterinary Public Health in France. He is specialized in the field of epidemiological surveillance and in particular in the evaluation of surveillance systems. He has contributed to the development and evaluation of national and regional surveillance systems in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and France. He is also invested in epidemiological surveillance training.
Frédéric Keck is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS). After working on the history of social anthropology and contemporary biopolitical questions raised by avian influenza, he was the head of the research department of the musée du quai Branly between 2014 and 2018. He published Avian Reservoirs. Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts (Duke University Press, 2020) and (with A. Kelly and C. Lynteris) Anthropology of Epidemics (Routledge, 2019).
Professor Marion Koopmans, DVM PhD focuses on global population level impact of rapidly spreading zoonotic virus infections, with special emphasis on foodborne transmission. Her research focuses on unravelling the modes of transmission of viruses among animals and between animals and humans, and the use of pathogenic genomic information to unravel these pathways and to signal changes in transmission or disease impact. She is co-PI in the FP7 funded PREPARE project (www.prepare-europe.eu) aimed at building a pan-European operational network for rapid and large-scale European clinical research in response to infectious disease outbreaks with epidemic potential.She is the director of the WHO collaborating centre for emerging infectious diseases at Erasmus, and Scientific Director “Emerging infectious diseases” of the Netherlands Centre for One Health (www.ncoh.nl). She has received the Infectious disease award of the Dutch Association for Infectious Diseases and is the recipient of the Stevin Premium 2018. In 2019, she became a member of the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences). She has co-authored 500 papers that have been cited 20.000 times.
Thierry Lefrancois is a French veterinarian with a PhD in physiopathology at INSERM. Chief Inspector of Veterinary Public Health, he has worked for over twenty years at CIRAD on the diagnosis, epidemiology and control of tropical animal diseases mainly vector borne diseases in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Guadeloupe. His research activities have focused on disease emergence and the development of interactions between research and surveillance in the framework of regional health networks in the South. He currently heads the Biological Systems Department (BIOS) at CIRAD, which brings together research units working in animal health, plant health, plant breeding and biodiversity, and promotes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to health within the framework of the "One Health" concept. He is currently member of the French Covid-19 Scientific Council in support of the government.
Dr. Mebatsion is an Executive Director of Viral Disease Research at Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health (BIAH). He has a distinguished career in academic and commercial spheres with over 25 years experience in Animal Health Vaccine Research at Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals (BFAV), Intervet International B.V., and Merial, now BIAH. He is a proven leader in the field of recombinant vaccine technology with translational research leading to CVB (USDA) or EMA licensed animal health vaccine products. His contributions to the literature on virus research include numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications, abstracts and presentations for scientific meetings as well as more than a dozen patents. In 2001 he was awarded the Max von Pettenkofer Award, for research excellence in the area of "Viruses as Tools for Prevention and Therapy of Diseases", Munich, Germany. Dr. Mebatsion received his DVM degree from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and his Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from the University of Giessen, Germany.
Adrian Muwonge is a Chancellor’s Fellow and co-director of the Fleming Fund Fellowships for Uganda, Malawi and Kenya at the University of Edinburgh. His area of interest is digital one-health. In a nutshell, he is developing digital technology that enhances multi-disciplinary data capture, processing and sharing. Here he focuses on antimicrobial resistance, building on work previously done to understand the drivers of antibiotic resistance at the human-animal interface in Uganda. The tools will allow stakeholders to track antibiotic usage, a critical component for evaluating antimicrobial stewardship strategies under National action plans(NAPs).
Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro is a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel, where she works with Dr. Shai Pilosof on ecological networks of microbial communities. Her research focuses on disease ecology in various settings and the effects of anthropogenic change on bats and other wildlife. Dr. Shapiro has a PhD from the University of Florida, where she studied the effects of land-use change on bats and their microbes in southern Africa and modeled the role of bat diversity and anthropogenic disturbance on Ebola virus spillover. After finishing her PhD, Dr. Shapiro was a postdoctoral researcher at CIRI/Inserm in Lyon with Dr. Jean-Philippe Rasigade, where she used metapopulation models to analyze the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections in hospital networks. Dr. Shapiro is an active member of the IUCN Bat Specialist Group and contributed to the development of the stakeholder guidelines and recommendations to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to bats. She has authored or co-authored 29 peer-reviewed articles. Originally from the United States, Dr. Shapiro currently lives in Israel and has worked in and continues to collaborate with researchers in France, Eswatini, Brazil, Denmark, and Hungary.
Orla Shortall is an interdisciplinary social scientist with an interest in decision making and governance within agriculture. Her work focuses on understanding how different values and types of knowledge interact in the management of animal health. Current EU and UK funded projects focus on antimicrobial use in calf care; digitising veterinary pig industry data for the public good; and controlling endemic cattle disease in Scotland.
Rosangela Tozzoli is a molecular microbiologist, researcher at the Italian National Instiute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS). She is member of the staff of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) and National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli including STEC since 2006, hosted by the Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health. She carries out studies on the characterisation of virulence determinants of pathogenic E. coli
and on the mechanisms of virulence genes acquisition, especially of Shiga toxin producing E. coli. She is involved in several EURL for E. coli activities, including methods development and validation, assistance to NRLs, Proficiency Testing schemes and training. She is convenor of CEN/TC463 "Microbiology of the food chain" WG2 , dealing with Shiga Toxin producing E. coli.
Fabrice Vavre is CNRS Researcher, Director of the Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology and co-coordinator of the Equipex+ project InfectioTron. His research deals with the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of host-symbiont interactions in Arthropods, and the potential use of symbionts to control pests or vectors of importance in plant, animal and human health.
Gwenaël Vourc’h is a research director at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) and a deputy director of the Epidemiology of Animal and Zoonotic diseases units (UMR EPIA). She is specialized in epidemiology and ecology of zoonotic diseases, innovative design in research, agroecology and health in livestock. She particularly worked on the risk of transmission of Lyme disease in relation to the environment and on the emergence of Chikungunya virus in Reunion island. Her work focuses on developing approaches to support the ecological transition of livestock farming on health aspects. These last years, she has been using innovative approach on various topics to identify new multidisciplinary and applied research tracks.
