Jordi LANDIER

I am a permanent researcher at the French National Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD) since 2018 and based in SESSTIM research unit in Marseille. My research interests revolve around the transmission of infectious agents causing diseases (transmission mode, risk factors, dynamics) and how to apply this understanding to the development of efficient control/elimination interventions and strategies. My research combines geoepidemiological analyses and more classic epidemiology (cohorts etc...).

I completed a PhD in epidemiology at Institute Pasteur in Paris and at Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, on the transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the etiologic agent of Buruli ulcer (2010-2014). During my post-doctoral fellowship at SMRU (Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand), I was the epidemiologist of the Malaria Elimination Task Force program, a large regional Plasmodium falciparum elimination program in Eastern Myanmar (2015-2018).

Currently, I work on malaria the Thai-Myanmar border (partner: SMRU, Mae Sot) and in the Sahelian region (partners: MRTC OK Doumbo, Bamako, Mali, ISED & IRD, Dakar, Senegal). I am interested in the role of asymptomatic Plasmodium carriers in malaria transmission and persistence, to evaluate if interventions targeting these individuals can accelerate the elimination of malaria.
I am also involved in a One Health study of mpox virus epidemiology in Central African Republic in partnership with Institut Pasteur in Paris and in Bangui, as well as Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle.

publications: http://publicationslist.org/jordi.landier