France-Brazil 2025: Cooperation Seminar & scientific days

Organised annually by the Ministry of Health, the French Embassy in Brazil and ANRS MIE, these scientific events provide an opportunity for Brazilian and French research teams involved in infectious disease research to exchange ideas. The aim of this cooperation seminar and scientific conference is to highlight the projects being carried out, address current research priorities and identify opportunities for collaboration between Brazil and France.

The conference can be attended in person (by specific invitation) or remotely (see below).

The programme

31st Technical-Scientific Seminar: Science as an Ally of Public Health – 1 October 2025

Time (Brasília – Federal District, Brazil, (UTC−3)

8:30 a.m. Welcome and coffee

9:00 a.m. (10 min) INSTITUTIONAL OPENING

Mariângela Simão – Secretary of Health and Environmental Surveillance, Ministry of Health (SVSA/MS), Brazil

9:10 a.m. (10 min)

Draurio Barreira – Director of the Department of HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis

and Sexually Transmitted Infections (Dathi/SVSA/MS)

9:20 a.m. (10 min)

François Legué – Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Action, French Embassy in Brazil

9:30 a.m. (10 min)

Yazdan Yazdanpanah – Director of ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS MIE)

9:40 a.m. (25 min)

CONFERENCE

Ana Valéria Mendonça – University of Brasília – UnB

HEALTH MISINFORMATION: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSE STRATEGIES.

10:05 a.m. (25 min)

Gilles Pialoux – AP-HP Tenon Hospital, Paris – Virtual FROM INFODEMICS TO INFODEMIOLOGY.

10:30 a.m. (15 min)

BREAK

SESSION I: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF HIV, TUBERCULOSIS, VIRAL HEPATITIS AND STIs.

MODERATOR: Pascal Vincelot – Mérieux Foundation

10:45 a.m. (15 min)

Victor Santana Santos – Federal University of Sergipe – UFS EXPERIENCES WITH PORTABLE RADIOGRAPHY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS.

11:00 a.m. (15 min)

Romain Salle – AP-HP Cochin, Paris SYPHILIS, AN IMMUNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE.

11:15 a.m. (15 min)

Sandra Wagner – INI/Fiocruz INNOVATIONS IN CONTINUOUS CARE FOR HIV AND AIDS.

11:30 a.m. (15 min) Ana Paula Fernandes – Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, NEW DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR VIRAL HEPATITIS: CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE HEALTHCARE NETWORK.

11:45 a.m. (30 min)

DEBATE

SATELLITE SESSION 12:15 p.m. (30 min)

COORDINATION: Caroline Bittencourt Passaes – Pasteur-Fiocruz Centre

LAUNCH CEREMONY FOR THE FEF/MEAE “HEALTH COOPERATION” PROJECT. Sophie Jacquel – French Embassy in Brazil

THE ÉQUIPE FRANCE FUND (FEF): CATALYST FOR STRATEGIC PROJECTS. Caroline Bittencourt Passaes – Pasteur Centre – Fiocruz

DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSORTIUM FOR RESEARCH IN TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY APPLIED TO INFECTIOUS AND EMERGING DISEASES (CRITIA MIE). Erico Arruda – São José Hospital, Fortaleza – CE

HEALTH CHALLENGES IN CEARÁ AND THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF SÃO JOSÉ HOSPITAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFECTIOUS AND EMERGING DISEASES.

12:45 p.m. – 2 p.m. (1 hour 15 minutes)

LUNCH

SESSION II: NEW APPROACHES TO CARE FOR THE MIGRANT POPULATION.

MODERATOR: Angélica Espinosa Miranda – Federal University of Espírito Santo – UFES

2:00 p.m. (15 min) James Berson Lalane – Dathi/SVSA/MS PREVENTION ON THE MIGRATION ROUTE (HIV).

2:15 p.m. (15 min) Marie Wicky – EMLT Samu Social FOLLOW-UP OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE WITH TUBERCULOSIS: A MEDICAL AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE TEAM.

2:30 p.m. (15 min) Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio – University of São Paulo – USP Ribeirão Preto BRAZILIAN RESPONSE TO TUBERCULOSIS AMONG MIGRANT POPULATIONS.

2:45 p.m. (15 min)

Mathieu Nacher – Inserm Guyane – Virtual NEW APPROACHES TO CARE FOR MIGRANT POPULATIONS: THE CASE OF GUYANA.

3:00 p.m. (30 min)

DEBATE

3:30 p.m. (15 min)

BREAK

3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. (1 hour 30 min) PRISME PLATFORM SIGNING CEREMONY

• Mariângela Simão – Secretary of Health and Environmental Surveillance, Ministry of Health (SVSA/MS), Brazil
• Yazdan Yazdanpanah – Director of ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases/National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
• Olivier Steffen – Head of the International Relations Department, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
• Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), Brazil
• François Legué – Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Action at the French Embassy in Brazil
• Lourdes Oliveira – Vice-President of Global Health and International Relations at Fiocruz (VPSGRIs)
• Raquel Coelho – Deputy Scientific Director of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
• Odette Tomescu-Hatto – Director of International Affairs at the Pasteur Institute
• Christophe Peyrefitte – Director of the Pasteur Institute of French Guiana
• Abdelfettah Sifeddine – Representative in Brazil of the Research Institute for Development (IRD) 5:15 p.m. COCKTAIL RECEPTION

31st Technical-Scientific Seminar: Science as an Ally of Public Health – 2 October 2025

8:30 a.m. Welcome coffee

Session III: Public policies and strategies for combating HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and STIs

Moderator: Ximena Pamela Díaz Bermúdez (University of Brasília – UnB)

9:00 a.m. (15 min) Implementing evidence-based public policies to combat tuberculosis Speaker: Fernanda Dockhorn (Dathi/SVSA/MS) (Virtual)

9:15 a.m. (15 min), Strategies for syphilis control and elimination of congenital syphilis in Brazil: an integrated approach, Speaker: Pamela Cristina Gaspar (Dathi/SVSA/MS)

9:30 a.m. (15 min), Plan for the elimination of HIV as a public health problem in Brazil by 2030, Speaker: Artur Kalichman (Dathi/SVSA/MS) (Virtual)

9:45 a.m. (15 min), Implementation of the Plan for the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Brazil and the Need to Revise Mathematical Models, Speaker: Mário Peribanez Gonzalez (Dathi/SVSA/MS)

10:00 a.m. (30 min), Development of the expert report on the treatment of HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs and tuberculosis in France, Speaker: Nathalie De Castro (AP-HP/ANRS MIE)

10:30 a.m. (30 min), Debate

Session IV: The role of civil society in eliminating HIV, STIs, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and HTLV as public health problems

Moderator: Jair Brandão (Dathi/SVSA/MS)

11:00 a.m. (15 min) – The role of civil society in eliminating HIV as a public health issue Grupo Pela Vidda, São Paulo-SP, Speaker: Eduardo Barbosa

11:15 a.m. (15 min) – The role of civil society in eliminating tuberculosis as a public health problem Articulação TB Brasil (ART TB), Speaker: Márcia Leão

11:30 a.m. (15 min) – The role of civil society in eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health problem, Movimento Brasileiro de Hepatites Virais, Speaker: Maristela da Silva

11:45 a.m. (15 min) The role of civil society in eliminating sexually transmitted infections (STIs) as a public health problem, Associação HTLVida-BA (HTLVida), Speaker: Adijeane Oliveira de Jesus

12:00 p.m. (30 min), Debate

12:30-2:00 p.m. (1.5 hours), Lunch

Session V: Technical internships within the framework of Brazil-France cooperation: presentation of experiences

Moderator: Nathalie de Castro (Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris)

2:00 p.m. (10 min), Health education and communication: expanding knowledge, stimulating access, Speaker: Ana Luísa Nepomuceno Silva (Dathi/SVSA/MS)

2:10 p.m. (10 min), Community and participatory surveillance as a strategy for controlling STIs, viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis at the binational border, Oiapoque–French Guiana, Speaker: Anapaula Martins Mendes (Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC)

2:20 p.m. (10 min), Acquired syphilis: a challenge for Brazilians and French people, Speaker: Dariza Caroline Neermann (Joinville City Hall, SC)

2:30 p.m. (10 min), New method for diagnosing HIV and immunological failure in patients with undetectable viral load, Speaker: Gabriel Reis Ferreira (Sertão Institute of Diseases)

2:40 p.m. (20 min), Debate

Conference, 3:00 p.m. (20 min), International crisis in research and scientific development funding, Speaker: Yazdan Yazdanpanah (ANRS MIE)

3:20 p.m. (50 min), Round table

Moderator: João Hermínio Martins da Silva Sena (Fiocruz Ceará)

Speakers:

Sylvie Boyer (Institute for Research and Development, IRD)

Odette Tomescu-Hatto (Pasteur Institute)

Olivier Steffen (Inserm)

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)

Meiruze Sousa Freitas (Director of the Department of Science and Technology – DECIT/Sectics/MS)

4:10

Closing of the Technical Seminar

9th ANRS Scientific Day Emerging Infectious Diseases – 3 October 2025

8:30 (20 min), Welcome coffee

8:50 (10 min), Opening

Draurio Barreira (Dathi/SVSA/MS)

Yazdan Yazdanpanah (ANRS MIE)

9:00 a.m. (30 min), Conference, Towards remission of HIV infection: strategies and perspectives from ANRS RHIVIERA, Speaker: Asier Saez-Cirion (Institut Pasteur)

9:30 a.m. (10 min), Debate

9:40 a.m. (15 min), History, themes and projects funded by ANRS MIE in Brazil, Speaker: Erica Telford (Expertise France/ANRS MIE)

9:55 a.m. (5 min), Debate

Session: Research opportunities for young researchers

Moderator: Alpha Diallo (ANRS MIE)

10:00 a.m. (15 min), The START programme by young researchers at ANRS MIE, Speaker: Marion Fanjat (ANRS MIE)

10:15 a.m. (15 min), Documenting the hospital in the post-pandemic context of Covid-19: ethnographic research at the Evandro Chagas Infectious Diseases Hospital, Speaker: Zoé Richard, (Doctoral Scholarship 2022)

10:30 a.m. (15 min), Understanding long Covid in two Brazilian cohorts: dynamics of variants and population differences, Speaker: Olivier Robineau (Supervisor, Master’s Scholarship 2024) (Vitual)

10:45 a.m., Debate

Session: Research projects

Moderator: Ester Sabino (University of São Paulo – USP)

11:00 a.m., Unity Project, Speaker: Beatriz Grinsztejn (INI/Fiocruz)

11:20 a.m., PISTAS Project, Speaker: Alexandre Grangeiro (Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo – FMUSP)

11:40 a.m., MyTTrA Project, Speaker: Maria Amélia de Sousa Mascena Veras (Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo)

12:00 p.m., Debate

12:30-1:30 p.m., Lunch

Session: Focus on emerging infectious diseases,

Moderators: Livia Caricio Martins (IEC) and Eric D’Ortenzio (ANRS MIE)

1:30 p.m., Research collaborations on emerging infectious diseases on the French Guiana/Brazil border, Speakers: Christophe Peyreffitte (Institut Pasteur Guyane), Livia Casseb (Instituto Evandro Chagas)

1:50pm, Surveillance and control of arbovirus vectors in Brazil: challenges and opportunities, Speaker: Ademir Jr Martins (Fiocruz – IOC)

2:05 p.m., Zika cohort, Speaker: Demócrito Miranda, Grupo MERG

2:20 p.m., Development of the Consortium for Research in Translational Immunology and Immunotherapy Applied to Infectious and Emerging Diseases (CRITIA MIE), Speaker: Caroline Pereira Bittencourt Passaes (Centro Pasteur-Fiocruz)

2:35 p.m., Debate

3:05 p.m. (15 min), Projeto IARA – Saúde: A investigação ampla na Região Amazônica de saúde, Speakers: Erika Pellegrino (Federal University of Pará – UFPA Altamira), Rodrigo Rodrigues (Federal University of Western Pará – Ufopa)

3:20 p.m., Questions

3:30 p.m., Closing of the technical-scientific seminar and ANRS MIE Days

Session: Brazil–France Technical Cooperation: review and prospects for collaboration

Nathalie de Castro, Saint Louis Hospital, France

Silvana Giozza, Dathi/SVSA/MS, Brazil

Sarah Fernandes, ACI/Dathi/SVSA/MS, Brazil

France-Brazil Season 2025

The event will be broadcast entirely online in French and Portuguese on the YouTube channel of the Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde e Ambiente /SVSA, at the following links (1 link per day).

Day 1/10 [FR] Day 2/10 [FR] Day 3/10 [FR] Day 1/10 [PT] Day 2/10 [PT] Day 3/10 [PT]

France-Brazil Season 2025

These events, labelled Season France–Brazil 2025, are supported by the authorities of both countries and highlight joint projects carried out by French and Brazilian teams, with a focus on infectious diseases, the promotion of young researchers and the border areas between Brazil and French Guiana.

The event will be preceded by the seminar ‘Building an international career in France – The impact of the Brazilian diaspora on research at the Pasteur Institute’, which will be held on 29 and 30 September 2025, also in Fortaleza, as part of the France-Brazil Season 2025. This offers a unique opportunity to participate in various scientific and institutional events during this important year of celebration of Franco-Brazilian cooperation.

Find out more on the France Brazil Partner Site [FR]