Scientific Committee

Nicolas ROSE (France)

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES)

Nicolas Rose (DVM) is in charge of the Epidemiology, Health and Welfare Unit (EPISABE) and is the deputy-director of the ANSES Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort laboratory, France. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of epidemiology in animal health and veterinary public health. He has conducted various national and international research programmes on the epidemiology of viral infectious agents in pigs (PCV2, PRRS, influenza virus, Hepatitis E virus, etc.), including quantitative epidemiology and modelling approaches. He is also a diplomate and current President of the European College of Porcine Health Management (ECPHM). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals (H-index=34).

Mouna ABED-ZAHAR (France)

LABOCEA

Mouna Abed-Zahar is a veterinarian specialized in avian pathology at the Veterinary School of Maisons-Alfort, France in 2011. In 2012, she obtained her master’s degree in avian health and production at the National High Veterinary School of Algiers after an internship at Anses. After having worked at private avian practice, she started in 2013 at the National High Veterinary School of Algiers as assistant professor and after as lecturer on avian pathology until 2019. In 2015, she started her PhD at ANSES Ploufragan, France (WOAH reference laboratory of Bursal Infectious Disease) and focused her research work on genetic, antigenic and pathogenic characterization of infectious bursal disease virus circulating in Algeria. She obtained her PhD in avian virology, in 2018. In 2021, she started at Labocea (department laboratory in Brittany, France) as head of Immunology, Virology, PCR and Sequencing department specialized in porcine and avian diagnostic.

Sibylle BERNARD-STOECKLIN (France)

Santé Publique France (SPF)

Dr Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin is a veterinarian epidemiologist specialized in public health and virology and has a PhD in immunovirology. She has been working on emerging zoonotic pathogens for a decade. Since 2017, she is working at the direction of infectious diseases of Santé publique France, the French public health agency, in the unit in charge of respiratory and vaccine-preventable diseases. She coordinates the national seasonal influenza surveillance and is involved in surveillance and expertise activities on zoonotic influenza and coronaviruses.

Stéphanie DESVAULT (France)

The French Biodiversity Agency (OFB)

Stéphanie Desvaux is a veterinarian epidemiologist and public health officer, currently at the French Agency for Biodiversity (OFB), in charge of surveillance and research programs on regulated diseases in wildlife populations. After several years working for international organisations, she conducted a PhD on the epidemiology of highly pathogenic influenza in South East Asia. In France, she coordinated the scientific framework of several surveillance programs and, since 2017, has work more specifically on disease at the interface between domestic and wild animals: bovine tuberculosis and African swine fever particularly. Understanding transmission mechanisms, in order to propose better surveillance protocols as well as adapted controlled measures, is the heart of her activities. Her team at OFB is involved in the surveillance of wildlife morbidity/mortality events in France (through Sagir and SMAC networks respectively for – mammals, birds and amphibians – and chiropterans) and, therefore, is at the crossroad of different issues: conservation, cynegetic, public health and animal health.

Philippe FRAVALO (France)

Conservatoire National des Arts et métiers (CNAM)

Dr Philippe Fravalo is a French teacher and researcher, specialized in questions of foodborne bacteria transmission from primary production to the food distribution, through the process of cutting and processing meat. In 2008 he joined the Research Chair in Meat Safety at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and became full professor in food hygiene at the University of Montreal. Since 2019 he’s professor at the CNAM (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) he co-leads the Metabiot lab, and exerts national and international expertise for public agencies.

François MEURENS (Canada)

University of Montreal

Francois Meurens (DVM) completed his PhD (bovine herpesviruses) in Belgium - 2004. After a post-doc at VIDO-InterVac (Saskatoon), he established his research about mucosal immunology in pig and sheep in France (INRAE) and Canada (VIDO-InterVac). In 2015, he became Professor in immuno-virology at Nantes College of Veterinary Medicine where his team focused on the study of porcine host/pathogen interactions. He has also a strong interest for the pig as a biomedical model. Currently he is Professor at the Faculty Veterinary Medicine - University of Montréal. He has published >100 scientific publications and is member of several scientific journal editorial boards.

Nathalie RUVOEN (France)

ONIRIS

After a degree in veterinary medicine, supplemented by a PhD in virology, Nathalie Ruvoen is Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Oniris (Ecole nationale vétérinaire, agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique). Her work is divided between teaching "regulated animal diseases and zoonoses", and research activities. She studies the involvement of blood group tissue antigens in viral infections (Norovirus, Rotavirus and SARS-CoV2). Since 2012, she has been leading the international master's program (Man-imal ) based on the One Health concept, which is currently evolving into the One Health Emerge master's program supported by Oniris and Nantes-Université.

Tobias TIJS (Netherlands)

GD Animal Health, Ultrecht University (Faculty of Veterinary Medecine)

Tijs Tobias is a veterinarian and researcher in all fields of porcine health management. Tijs is an EBVS™ Registered European Veterinary Specialist in Porcine Health Management and ECPHM Diplomate.

Tijs works at Royal GD in Deventer and his work entails on the consultancy and the monitoring of pig diseases in the Netherlands, with a focus on zoonotic and notifiable diseases in pigs. In addition, Tijs is part-time seconded at Utrecht University.

Tijs is a member of the Dutch Welfare Committee for Notifiable Diseases, a member of the Dutch Zoonosis Network and Chair of the Dutch Thinktank on Veterinary Pig Affairs.