The Graduate School 1H-EID celebrates the 2025/2026 cohort of the MIE Master’s programme!

An evening celebrating knowledge sharing and connections

Several members of the programme’s educational committee attended the event: India Leclercq and Sandie Munier, co-heads of the Master 2 programme; Loïc Desquilbet, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Monica Sala, representative of the Institut Pasteur; as well as the programme’s two directors, Professor Solen Kernéis and Isabelle Martin-Verstraete.

Master’s alumni, as well as PhD students, were also present, highlighting the continuity and vitality of the Graduate School’s network.

Diversity of backgrounds: a strength of the Graduate School

Despite the intense heat, the evening brought together participants from diverse backgrounds, reflecting the very identity of the Graduate School: collaboration and synergy across disciplines. Biologists, healthcare professionals and engineers: students come from different fields but share a common ambition, to put their expertise at the service of the One Health approach. By developing new skills, they are preparing to become key players in addressing future pandemics.

Students share their experiences in the Master’s programme

“This was a wonderful year because I met so many people with different backgrounds from all over the world. This is truly the greatest strength of the Master’s programme.”

 

“Coming from a medical background, I wanted to try something different and develop new skills, and this Master’s programme was the best way to do so. I learned how to better organise my work and, above all, how to interact and collaborate with people who come from different backgrounds and have much more experience than I do. I learned a lot from them.”

 

“This programme gave me the opportunity to meet many great professors from a wide range of fields, allowing me to explore different areas of research and discover which ones I enjoy. They shared their projects and experiences, which gave me a lot of motivation to pursue my own research.”

 

“Through this Master’s programme, I strengthened my technical skills, such as writing a thesis, analysing and presenting results, and I also learned how to communicate effectively through posters, oral presentations, written work and in English. Compared to my medical studies, it was a calmer year, but not necessarily an easier one. The pace was less intense and allowed me to take a step back from my medical training before moving forward again. I wanted to pursue a career in research, and this Master’s programme matched that ambition by offering an approach that goes beyond medicine and microbiology alone. Through its courses in epidemiology, programming, the One Health approach, and the many seminars organised, it provides the opportunity to explore different disciplines and build a valuable network, whether or not one ultimately chooses to pursue research.”

A new generation ready to tackle tomorrow’s challenges

We wish our graduates all the best for their future paths, both professionally and personally. May they continue to pursue what inspires them, while never losing their curiosity or their passion for science.