Serge Morand belongs to the French CNRS and CIRAD, based in Thailand at the Faculty of Veterinary Technology (Kasetsart University), and invited Professor at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine (Mahidol University).

With a strong background in evolutionary ecology of disease transmission, he focuses his research on health ecology. Field disease ecologist, he is concerned at the role of biodiversity as risks but insurance for zoonotic emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance raise. During the last 10 years he conducted 35 field trips in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines) totalling more than 380 days of field works. He has conducted several projects on the impacts of global changes, including climate and land use changes, on the links between biodiversity, health and societies in Southeast Asia, using wildlife-borne diseases as a model (projects ANR CERoPath and ANR BiodivHealthSEA. The new ongoing project, ANR FutureHealthSEA aims at building scenarios of health and biodiversity in links with land use changes and governance. He has published articles, edited special issues and books on this topic, with the last ones “Socio-ecological Dimensions of Infectious Diseases in Southeast Asia” (2015 Springer Singapore), “Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia: Challenges in a Changing Environment” (2017 EarthScan London), and “Biodiversity and Health. Linking Life, Ecosystems and Societies” (2017, ISTE-Elsevier, London) (see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Serge_Morand).