Franco-Indian Workshop on Global Health

Structured around four interconnected consortia, the campus brings together scientists and academics to tackle critical challenges in life sciences and health. The four projects include:

• BIOSANTEXC, composed by the four Ecole Normale Supérieure and six Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), as well as the NCCS, the NCBS and the TISS.
• IN-HEALTH, composed by Sorbonne Université and the Indian Institute of Technology of Delhi,
• ILIADE, composed by the Universités de la Réunion, de Lyon, de Poitiers, and the Vellore Institute of Technology, as well as the JIPMER and the CIMAP.
• SHIELD, composed by the Université Côte d’Azur, Ashoka University, the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and the IIIT Delhi.

Programme 

The workshop will be held in English

Monday 8 Dec 2025

Venue: Salle des Actes, ENS PSL, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

8h30–8h50: Welcome and registration

9h–9h20: Introduction

• Frédéric Worms, Director ENS-PSL
• H.E. Sanjeev Singla, Ambassador of India to France
• Representative from French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (TBC)

9h20–9h45: Keynote speech :

Marie Gaille (CNRS/ENS-PSL): “Adaptation: an appropriate approach to addressing the health effects of climate change?” 

9h45–12h30: Session 1 - Global Health and Climate Change

Session coordinators: Kévin Jean (ENS-PSL), Joy Monteiro (IISER Pune), Giovanna Fancello (Sorbonne Université)

• Giovanna Fancello and Haykanush Ohanyan (Institut Pierre Louis de Santé Publique): "Urban Heat and Vulnerable Populations in France: Impacts on Hospitalisation, Mortality and Medication Use"
• Ayushi Sharma (ENS-PSL): "Health co-benefits of improved air quality under various trajectories toward net-zero emission by 2050 in France",
• Dimitri Lavilette (International Research Centre on Infectiology): "Characterization of African Neglected Arboviruses with Urban Transmission Potential"
• Fabrice Vavre (University of Lyon 1): “One-health” (title tbc)

Coffee break

• Saurabh Tewari (IIT Delhi): "Making the Invisible Visible"
• Farhana Ibrahim (IIT Delhi) "Climate adaptation and mental health - a case study from the Thar desert"
• Samuel Abiven (ENS-PSL): “Integrative Approaches to Ecosystem Functioning in Agro-ecosystems and its consequences on rural south indian communities - presentation of the Indo French Cell for Water Science, Bangalore”
• Bejoy Thomas (IISER Pune): “Wasterwater reuse and livelihoods” (title tbc)

12h30–14h: Lunch

14h–16h45: Session 2 - Access to Care

Session coordinators: Françoise Guillo (Sorbonne Université), Angelie Multani (IIT Delhi), Mariappan Muthiah (TISS)

• P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan (IIT Delhi): “Enabling Healthcare Access in Rural India: The Role of Health-Tech Startups”,
• Jayan Jose Thomas (IIT Delhi): “Health, Jobs, and Justice for the Young: An Agenda for India and the World”,
• Mariappan Muthiah (TISS): ”Access to Maternal Healthcare: India's progress and opportunities”
• Catherine Laffineur (Université Côte d’Azur): “Ageing / economic impacts and perspectives”

Coffee break

• Sandeep Kumar (IITD): “Making AI Inclusive: Generalization and Equity in Neuroscience”,
• Thomas Maillet Mezeray (ENS PSL): “Making One Health economic: The Price to Access Care: One Health’s Economics”,
• Dulce Ferraz (Université Lyon 2): “Promoting Access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to Improve HIV Prevention among Cisgender Female Sex Workers in France and Brazil”,
• Chaker El Kalamouni (Université de la Réunion), « Natural antivirals against emerging arboviruses: a One Health path from island biodiversity to access to care” (title tbc)

Parallel session 14h-16h: Administrative topics and issues –for the Franco-Indian Campus (ENS-PSL, salle 3 – Pôle Ressources Lettres + remote connection)

16h45-17h: Day 1 wrap-up

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17h30-18h45: FIC coordination meeting

(salle 2307, Tour Zamansky, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris + remote connection)

19h: Networking event (TIPI, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris)

Poster session (PhDs)

Tuesday 9 Dec 2025

Venue: Institut du Cerveau - Hôpital Pitié, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris

Morning: Auditorium de l’Institut du Cerveau, Afternoon: room 4 and rooms 1-2

9h-9h15: Welcome and Introduction to Day 2

Brian Lau, Scientific Director, Institut du Cerveau

9h15-9h45: Keynote speech

Catherine Tourette-Turgis, Founder of l'Université des Patients

9h45 -12h30: Session 3 - Nutrition, Mental Health, Lifestyles and Ethics

Session coordinators: Kiran Padmanabhan (ENS Lyon), Alexandre Escargueil (Sorbonne Université), Divya Dwivedi (IIT Delhi)

• Nicolas Bogliotti (ENS Paris-Saclay): “Photocaged amino-acids and peptides for the control of biological interactions”
• Filipe De Vadder (ENS Lyon): “Modeling malnutrition in juvenile mice: sex matters”
• Kamlesh Singh (IIT Delhi): “Positive Psychology and Mental Health: Integrating Cultural Wisdom with Scientific Practice”
• Eleonore Bayen (Sorbonne Université): “Paving the way to Dementia-Inclusive Societies thanks to brain health”
• Liane Schmidt (Paris Brain Institute): “Investigation of optimism biases in value-based, dietary decision-making”
• Kalyan Chakraborty (Ashoka University): “Changes and continuity in traditional foodways and indigenous nutrition through archaeological lenses from India and Canada”
• Krishnan Venktaraman (VIT Vellore): “The Role of Vitamin B12 in Health: Fortifying Functional Foods to Mitigate Cardiovascular Disease Risk”.

12h30-14h: Lunch

14h-15h30: 3 Parallel sessions (outcomes and next steps)

• Session 1: Global Health and Climate Change
• Session 2: Access to Care
• Session 3: Nutrition, Mental Health, Lifestyles and Ethics

15h30-16h30: Final wrap-up and Conclusions

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