ASTRE research unit (Animal Santé Territoires Risques Ecosystemes)
My research mainly focuses on the combined use of remote sensing and spatial modelling to better understand the epidemiology and ecology of diseases. I am particularly interested in the successive links between satellite imagery – environment – hosts and/or vectors distribution and dynamics – disease transmission. I have been working on several vector-borne diseases (dengue, malaria, West Nile fever, Rift Valley fever, bluetongue) and I recently started developing different animal mobility models (e.g., ruminants, bats, birds) to better understand and predict the interactions among species and their contacts in space and time. I am also interested in developing operational tools to provide public health stakeholders dynamic risk maps for targeting surveillance or control interventions.