Dr Marianne E. Besson is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the National Veterinary School of Lyon (2020), with a master’s degree in biomedical research. She then specialised in the prevention and control of zoonotic infectious diseases, at the interface between animal health and human health (MSc One Health, Royal Veterinary College, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). She wrote her thesis on Lassa Fever, assessing prospects for control of the disease. She is now working in research (therapeutics) in the pharmaceutical industry, as a Clinical Project Leader in animal health.

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Dr Pierre Alexandre Metral is a geography teacher and researcher at Labex ITTEM and at Grenoble Alpes University. He wrote his doctoral thesis, and numerous publications, on lost ski areas ("Disarmed mountains: an analysis of the territorial trajectories of abandoned ski resorts", 2024). His main research topics include map sciences, territorial studies, and geomatics. He uses his skills in cartography for disease mapping, and for critical spatial analysis of disease evolution.