Marisa Peyre (Eng. , Ph.D., HDR) studied biotechnology engineering (France), human health Immunology (London, UK), epidemiology and health evaluation (CIRAD, France). Her speciality: evaluation of surveillance and control programs in animal health and One Health. She is currently the deputy director of ASTRE, the integrated health research unit of CIRAD – the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development. She has been working internationally, especially in Africa and South East Asia where she was based for 6 years developing evaluative epidemiology and health economics research fields. Her key expertise in on health systems design and evaluation; health economics; participatory epidemiology and public-private partnerships (PPPs). She provides expertise for international organizations (e.g. OIE, FAO).
For 15 years she has worked and published on the evaluation of animal and zoonotic diseases surveillance and control both in developed and developing countries, especially on emerging zoonotic risks (e.g. influenza, Ebola, coronaviruses). Her work has contributed to improving our understanding of animal health surveillance challenges, especially regarding the socio-economic drivers impacting disease reporting and for the optimization of resources allocated to these systems. She has been promoting the implementation of an integrated approach to health evaluation, taking into consideration social, cultural and economic issues, to provide relevant and adapted solutions for all the stakeholders. Her work aims to improve awareness of researchers, decision makers and private actors on health systems issues and needs and to provide tools for to better assessment of such systems. She has been promoting the needs to move from a top-down t o a bottom- up approach in the definitions of health policies and the implementation of impact evaluation (based on theory of change) as a planning tool for co-development and better engagement of all the actors in the health system processes. She is an expert member of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) of the Pandemic Fund since 2023. Epidemiologist, Deputy Head of CIRAD ASTRE research unit and CIRAD coordinator of PREZODE international initiative -preventing zoonotic disease emergence.
