Emmanuel Roux

**Emmanuel Roux** received his **Ph.D**. degree in industrial and human automation and computer science in 2002, from the University of Valenciennes, France. His skills concern **data science** and **modelling** for the understanding and control of eco-epidemiological systems and the design of cross-border One-Health observatories. He is researcher at the French national research institute for sustainable development (**[IRD](https://www.ird.fr/)**) since 2007, in the **[ESPACE-DEV Unit](https://www.espace-dev.fr/)** research unit. His research interests are: - Spatial modelling of entomological and/or epidemiological data; - Objective characterization of the environment and of the landscape from satellite data; - Data- or knowledge-driven modelling of the environment and health relationships; - Environment related diseases; - Amazon region; - Cross-border contexts and cross-border health. He develops and leads **collaborations with partners from France, French Guiana and Brazil**, and more recently with **Poland, Portugal and Kenya**, concerning the relationships between environment and health. He **participates to, or co-supervises, several partnership and research projects** that contribute to the construction of cross-border health observatories, between French Guiana and Brazil and within other **cross-border contexts**. He is currently the **co-director of the[ International Joint Laboratory "Sentinela"](https://lmi-sentinela.unb.br/)** ("Network of transdisciplinary, territorialized and cross-border sentinel sites for public health"), with Christovam Barcellos (Fiocruz/ICICT, Brazil) and Helen Gurgel (UnB/LAGAS, Brazil).