TEAM  MEMBERS

 Raphaëlle Métras   is  the Principal Investigator of MoZART project. She is an INSERM researcher at IPLESP UMRS-1136, in SUMO (Surveillance and Modelling) team. Through a combination of methods ranging from data collection as part as epidemiological investigations to  modelling  she  is interested in  understanding how vector-borne & zoonotic pathogens spread  among animals, and spillover to humans.

Ilona Suhanda is a PhD candidate (2023-2026)   in the SUMO team at  IPLESP UMRS-1136. Using statistical approaches,   Ilona   will explore the similarities driving the spatial distribution of Lyme Borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis in France at the human, environment and animal levels.

Snour Rahimi   is a M1 student in Public Health At Sorbonne Université. Snour is currently doing her internship on understanding patterns of tick-borne zoonoses infection at the bird-tick interface.

Past members of MoZArt team

 Wen Fu defended her PhD in October 2023, looking at the spatial and seasonal determinants of Lyme Borreliosis incidence in France, using national surveillance data.  Wen is now a postdoc at Columbia University (US).

Laure Mathews-Martin   defended her PhD in September 2024 on assessing the risk of TBE, through the ingestion of  unpasteurized dairy products.   Her work aimed at studying the spatial pattern of TBE exposure in ruminants, as well as assessing the infectiousness of unpasteurized dairy products .   Laure now works as a scientific project manager at the French Ministry of Agriculture.

Younjung Kim  worked as a postdoc in MozArt project,  investigating   the epidemiology & transmission dynamics of Lyme borreliosis & tick-borne encephalitis between humans, wildlife, and ticks using mathematical models. He is now a postdoc in the Statistics Department at Oxford University (UK).

Ingrid Wongoue   did her  Master internship ('Methodology and statistics in biomedical research' (Université Paris Saclay))  looking at the determinants of tick bites reports investigated in the Grippenet cohort  .

Armelle Poisson did a 6-months Master internship (feb-aug 2023)  investigating the role of wildlife in tick-borne pathogens epidemiology. Interested in the ecology and transmission dynamics of infectious agents in wild animals, she  is now a PhD student at UMR5175.

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