François Roger (Edited By) François Roger is the Regional Director of CIRAD for the Greater Mekong Region and Inspector-General of Veterinary Public Health at the French Ministry of Agriculture. He is a veterinarian and an epidemiologist with more than 30 years of experience across Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean, focusing on the epidemiology of animal and zoonotic diseases. His work has emphasized the development of interdisciplinary One Health networks, particularly for emerging and endemic diseases in Southeast Asia. He engages with governments and international organisations to bridge science, policy, and practice. Marie-Marie Olive (Edited By) Marie-Marie Olive is an epidemiologist at CIRAD, whose work focuses on integrated One Health surveillance and the early detection of emerging zoonoses. She coordinates multi country activities that strengthen early warning, training and response across African countries, where she helps develop approaches to enhance detection and response capacities. Her background includes research on vector-borne diseases including doctoral research on Rift Valley fever transmission in Madagascar, and she leads transdisciplinary collaborations with national partners to translate evidence into operational surveillance. Marisa Peyre (Edited By) Marisa Peyre is an epidemiologist and health economist specializing in the evaluation of surveillance and control programs in animal health and One Health.
She is the Deputy Director of the ASTRE research unit and has co-founded PREZODE, the global initiative to prevent zoonotic disease emergence. Trained in biotechnology engineering, immunology, epidemiology and health evaluation, she has worked at CIRAD since 2006 and regularly engages in policy relevant dialogues on One Health governance and operationalisation. She has also worked on the evaluation of animal health surveillance and control in developed and developing countries, especially on emerging zoonotic risks such as animal Influenza, Ebola and MersCov and on the strengthening of public-private partnership. Dirk Pfeiffer (Edited By) Dirk Pfeiffer is Chow Tak Fung Professor of One Health at City University of Hong Kong and Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He has worked for 40 years on the control and prevention of infectious diseases in wild and domestic animal populations in a variety of eco-social contexts. This also involves engaging with governments and international organisations for the translation of science into policy. Dirk teaches One Health and Veterinary Epidemiology at undergraduate and postgraduate student level. Jakob Zinsstag (Edited By) Prof.
Dr. Jakob Zinsstag is a veterinarian with a PhD in tropical animal health. Since 1998 he has led a research group on human and animal health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and has been deputy head of the department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Swiss TPH since 2011. He spent eight years in West Africa at the International Trypanotolerance Centre in The Gambia and four years as the director of the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques in Côte d'Ivoire. He is also past president of the International Association for Ecology and Health and president of the scientific board of the Transdisciplinary network of the Swiss Academies. Prof. Zinsstag focuses on the control of zoonoses in developing countries and the provision of health care to mobile pastoralists using a One Health approach.