Management and Surveillance of Parasitic and Infectious Emergencies (GS-EPI)

According to the teaching units: Final assessment, continuous assessment, oral. The UE projects and internships are evaluated according to specific continuous assessment methods: a written report/thesis and an oral presentation before a jury.

• M1 specific to ^4th year pharmacy students, research stream, to focus training on skills not covered in their previous curriculum

• M2 apprenticeship (in progress and awaiting validation): alternating periods of study on campus/ periods of internship

in preparation

Opening envisaged if validated, in September 2022

An internship of 3 to 4 months is proposed and recommended as early as the first year of the program, if possible in the world of applied or finalized research in order to promote the learning of the scientific approach and training through research. An in-depth tutored project is offered as an alternative to the first-year internship to students who need to deepen their knowledge and/or consolidate their approach and ability to synthesize, in order to better prepare for the second year of study and the final internship.

            The end-of-study internship in management or monitoring structures (national, international), in international organizations, NGOs, in research organizations or institutions, or even in health-related companies, is compulsory in M2 for a period of 5 to 6 months, in the field of specialization chosen by the student.

At the entrance to M1: a bachelor's degree or similar

At the entrance to M2: one year of Master 1 or equivalent

see target audience for more information

Applications are made on the following platforms: 

French & European students:

• For the M1, follow the procedure " My Master " from the website : https://www.monmaster.gouv.fr/

• For M2, students must submit their application via the e-candidat application: https: //candidature.umontpellier.fr/candidature

International students from outside the EU: follow the "Studies in France" procedure: https: //pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/etudesenfrance/dyn/public/authentification/login.html

The opening of this course to young people from basic scientific courses (Bachelor's degrees), health courses (especially pharmacy, but also human and veterinary medicine), as well as to staff from health monitoring services in continuing education and to students from courses in geography and planning (under certain conditions) contributes to the construction of a common culture among the actors in this field, in response to the necessary interdisciplinary connections.

At the entrance of the M1 :

• of students from
  • Life Sciences or Life and Earth Sciences degrees, in particular the following courses: Ecology and Biology of Organisms, Biology of Organisms and Populations, Environmental Sciences, Microbiology, Cell Biology and Physiology,
  • Health Sciences licenses 
  • Biology and Humanity licenses (Catholic universities)....,
• 4th year pharmacy or human medicine students.
• More secondarily, students with a degree in Geography and Planning, Social Sciences, Health and Social Sciences. Their integration will be validated according to additional elements of their file indicating their capacities to quickly acquire certain elements of so-called "hard" sciences.

Upon entering M2:

• by right, students having acquired the M1 Eco-EPI
• students in reorientation, coming from a M1 Biology, Biology-Health, Health, Life Sciences, Public Health, Microbiology, Nutrition and Food Sciences, Biology-Agro Sciences, Agrosciences, Environment, Territories, Landscape, Forest, Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Risks and Environment, Teaching, Education and Training (MEEF),^2nd degree. Their integration will be evaluated on the basis of the M1 prerequisites essential for continuation in M2 GS-EPI, the coherence between their training project and the objectives of the course, and according to the potential vacancies in relation to the reception capacities
• ^6th year veterinary students with a professional project focused on "one health" epidemiological surveillance (under the same conditions as those listed above)
• In continuing education, pharmacists, physicians in internship in response to the need for integrative skills of future health professionals
• in continuing education, health monitoring service personnel in eco-epidemiology.

At the entrance to the M2 GS-EPI apprenticeship program (application in progress - subject to validation; opening planned for September 2022)

• Priority given to M1 Eco-EPI students
• students from M1 (listed above)
• 6th year veterinary students

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Imposed by the level of entry (see Target audience), the specific modalities related to initial, continuing or sandwich training. It is therefore mainly a question of :

• a bachelor's degree in biological and environmental sciences, or its equivalent, for entry into M1;
• Master's level 1 in biological and peri-biological sciences, or their equivalent, in M2, including in this case fundamental knowledge of pathogens or diseases of infectious and parasitic origin.

For entry into M1, "knowledge" at the L3 level or equivalent in at least two of these fields

• Biology of organisms
• Physiology
• Cellular and molecular biology
• Ecology
• Evolutionary biology
• Parasitology
• Microbiology

For entry into M2, knowledge of M1 level or equivalent is required in Biology of the main pathogenic organisms and in at least 2 of the following fields

• Pathologies of infectious and parasitic origin 
• Antibiotic therapy and anti-infectious drugs
• General ecology
• Parasitic ecology
• Microbial ecology
• Health ecology
• Evolutionary biology and/or conservation biology
• Parasitology
• Microbiology
• Vector Entomology
• Descriptive epidemiology (statistics)
• Modeling
• Health risk management
• Public health policy
• Epidemiological surveillance

For entry into M1,

• L1-L2 level knowledge in at least 1 of these areas

1. Bio-Statistics
2. Computer science (database, GIS)

• Basic knowledge, even self-taught, in 1 or 2 of the following areas can be valuable

1. Breeding systems
2. Economy
3. Sociology
4. Anthropology
5. Territorial planning
6. Environmental management
7. Conservation Biology

For entry into M2,

• M1 level knowledge in at least 1 of these fields (Initial training)

1. Bio-Statistics
2. Computer science (database, GIS)

• Knowledge (professional experience, internships, studies, extra-academic experience) in 1 or 2 of the following areas

1. Human or veterinary health
2. Livestock and animal production systems
3. Economy and trade globalization
4. Participatory science
5. Sociology /Anthropology
6. Development assistance
7. Humanitarian aid
8. Territorial planning
9. Environmental management

Although not the main objective of the program, it is possible to do theses at the disciplinary interfaces between health ecology and sociology, in applied or targeted research.

same possibilities as in France, on interface theses and with the objectives of application to the management

Professions: Expert eco-epidemiologist, eco-epidemiological monitoring officer, health watch officer, surveillance network coordinator (including animal diseases), consultant in epidemiological risk management, etc.

Insertion: National or regional management and surveillance bodies / Health watch institutes (in France: ANSES, DGAI, DDPP, SPF...or abroad; ECDC...), International bodies, Surveillance networks, Health Defence Groups (GDS)...