Elsa joined the PREZODE Initiative as Global Science Officer in March 2024. She is providing scientific support for the initiative and coordinating the five PREZODE Pillar Working Groups.
From 2015, she held several positions at the Royal Veterinary College, London, UK, carrying out research on the neglected tropical disease schistosomiasis and on toxoplasmosis using a One Health approach. She studied prevention strategies, transmission and treatment of zoonotic schistosomiasis through several multidisciplinary international research projects combining molecular epidemiology, social sciences, economics and mathematical modeling and involving significant fieldwork in sub-Saharan Africa.
She co-organized multiple workshops with various stakeholders to advocate for a One Health approach for the control and prevention of zoonotic diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. In the past years, she collaborated to the drafting of guidelines for the surveillance of endemic zoonoses for the FAO and worked for the WHO to develop an applied manual on the control of zoonotic schistosomiasis for program managers.
Elsa obtained her PhD in 2013, working on tick population genetics, host structuration and the consequences on Lyme disease circulation in Europe.