Odile LE MINOR

Odile is a veterinary epidemiologist with expertise in infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance and drug development. With over 10 years of experience, she worked in a wide range of settings, both in public and private sectors, ranging from human hospitals to animal farms in developed or low-income countries. This professional background, shared between human and animal health, is an asset in understanding the design and implementation of one health policies and strategies.

As an epidemiologist at the Institut Pasteur (Paris), she has gained a significant experience in defining, conducting and coordinating hospital-based multicenter studies on the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, within national or European projects. Living one year in Vietnam, she performed an in-depth field investigation on veterinary medicines in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam on the behalf of IRASEC (research institute on Southeast Asia). Her successes also included, as R&D manager for a pharmaceutical laboratory, the development and commercialization of veterinary vaccines (for rabbit and poultry) and the setting up of good laboratory practices in the animal facilities. Additionally, she has taught epidemiology to veterinary students and worked as clinical trial monitor.

Odile holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the National Veterinary School of Toulouse (France), a diploma of medical bacteriology from the Institut Pasteur (Paris), and a M.P.H. from Paris-Saclay University.

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