Professor Serge Morand

Professor Serge Morand, research director of the French National Centre for Research (CNRS), holds a PhD in Ecology of the University of Rennes (Brittany, France) and postdoctoral training at Oxford University with a fellowship of the Royal Society.

He has authored over 480 publications and 20 books. He has coordinated several international projects on the interlinkages between biodiversity and zoonotic diseases involving intensive field studies. He has been a Visiting Professor at some universities in Europe and Asia, participating in “One Health” or “Biodiversity and Health” programs. For this, he obtained an Honoris Doctorate from Kasetsart University (Thailand).

Serge Morand serves in the Editorial and Review boards of several journals in the fields of Zoology, Parasitology and Disease Ecology. He is highly cited in the domains of Ecology and Public health. He was a member of the former “Biodiversity and Health” technical group of the third National Environment and Health Plan at the French Ministry of Ecology. He is member of the Knowledge Coordination Body of the European EKLIPSE, and of the scientific committee of “One Sustainable Health”, and representative of the CNRS to the PREZODE initiative. Serge Morand is a member of the Small Mammal Group and the Wildlife Health Group of the IUCN Survival Species Commission. He is actually co-coordinating a “One Health” project for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.