Professor Nigel French (Massey University, New Zealand)
Speaker: Foodborne risks
Professor French is Massey University’s Distinguished Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Public Health and: 
- Co-Director of Te Niwha, the Infectious Disease Research Platform
- Co-Director of One Health Aotearoa
- Executive Director Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDReC).
He specialises in the epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases. He has published over 300 journal articles and ten book chapters with the majority on food and waterborne pathogens, primary animal pathogens and zoonoses.
Professor French has been an advisor to multiple Government agencies and initiatives including: the New Zealand Ministry of Health COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group, and the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor’s Panel on Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the UK Fleming Fund and a member of the International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods.
Professor French is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, was awarded Honorary Professorship at the University of Otago Medical School in 2017 and an Honorary Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (in Veterinary Public Health) in 2018.
Dr Jorge Pinto
Speaker: Antimicrobial resistance and the environment
Dr Jorge Pinto Ferreira is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with five years clinical experience and a:
- Master’s degree in food safety
- PhD (as Fulbright scholar) in Population Medicine
- Graduate certificate in public policy
- Diploma from the European College of Veterinary Public Health (2017.)
He conducted his doctoral studies in a partnership with the College of Veterinary Medicine of North Carolina State University (USA) and the medical school of Duke University (USA). His studies were dedicated to the epidemiological aspects of the transmission of Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
In 2012-2017, he worked as a consultant in Switzerland, (SAFOSO AG). From 2017-2021, he was the Deputy Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Veterinary Products Department for the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). In 2021, he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as a Food Safety Officer.
Dr. Hélène Carabin
Speaker: Human Zoonotic Disease Response
Topic: Operationalisation and governance of One Health: examples, challenges and solutions, and future avenues.
Dr. Hélène Carabin (DVM, MSc in Veterinary Clinical Sciences - Epidemiology, PhD in Epidemiology and
Biostatistics) is a full Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health of the Université de Montréal. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and One Health (OH).
Her research focuses on the use of advanced epidemiological and biostatistical methods to better understand the risk factors and burden of infectious diseases and to evaluate control programmes, with an emphasis on neglected and zoonotic diseases, using a One Health approach.
Dr. Carabin:
- co-leads two pan-Canadian networks:
- OH governance of infectious diseases and anti-microbial resistance and
- modeling emerging infections while considering OH
- leads the Groupe de Recherche en Épidémiologie des Zoonoses et Santé Publique since 2020
- leads the One Global Health Pillar of the Centre de Recherche en Santé Publique (CReSP)
- is a Commissioner on the OH Lancet Commission
- has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals and has an h-index of 48 (according to google scholar.)
Dr. Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli
Speaker: Comparative Environmental Oncology
Dr. Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli is a professor of General and Animal Pathology and Head of the Laboratory of Experimental and Comparative Oncology at the Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Dagli received her professional degrees (DVM, Residence in Anatomic Pathology, MSc and PhD) from the University of São Paulo, and did her postdoctoral training at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, Lyon, France.
Dr. Zaidan Dagli's achievements include being the:
- Founder and first president of the Brazilian Association of Veterinary Oncology (ABROVET) and President of the Latin American Society of Toxicologic Pathology, LASTP.
- Vice President of the National Technical Committee on Biosafety (CTNBio, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil), and coordinator of the Graduate Program on Biotechnology of the University of São Paulo.
- Current President of the Undergraduation Commission of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
- Member of the Veterinary and Agronomy Area Coordination at the Sao Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP.
Dr. Dagli has supervised 24 MSc dissertations, 20 PhD theses and 20 post docs. She is a researcher of the Scientific and Technological National Council (CNPq), level 1A, and has authored or co-authored more than 1000 publications, and delivered over 300 oral and poster presentations and lectures.
Professor Carlos Goncalo das Neves
Speaker: Wildlife interface and emerging infectious diseases
Topic: 'Up to 72 per cent of EID events originate in wildlife, but is this the whole story?'
Director of Research and Internationalization at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI), and holds a joint position as Full Professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Tromsø.
He is a Member of the Wildlife Health Specialist Group within the Species Survival Commission of the International Union of the Conservation of Nature. Prof. das Neves has worked in field of wildlife diseases and the nexus with One Health and emerging threats. He has a strong background in science to policy translation, advocacy and societal awareness, and is currently coordinating the establishment of the Norwegian One Health National Platform. He presently is a Commissioner at the Lancet One Health Commission and will take up the position of Chief Scientist of the European Food Safety Authority in November 2022.
Professor das Neves:
- graduated in Veterinary Medicine, from the Technical University of Lisbon in 2004
- obtained his PhD in Veterinary Science in 2009 from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Sciences
- holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- a Certificate in Public Policy from the London School of Economics.
- is a specialist of the European College of Zoological Medicine, and is currently the Chair of the Wildlife Population Health Specialty.
From 2019 to 2021, Prof. das Neves served as the President of the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) the leading international scientific organization dedicated to the study and understanding of the health of wild animals, with more than 1,500 members from over 70 countries around the world.
