20 June 2025

Paris

One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit

INRAE, together with international partners, is co-organising the One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit, to be held on 20 June 2025 at the Académie Nationale de Médecine in Paris. This event forms part of the World Microbiome Partnership (WMP) and aims to develop a shared roadmap to better integrate microbiome science into public health, agriculture, environmental and climate policies, following a One Health approach. The summit is held under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic.

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An international event focused on microbiome science through a One Health lens
INRAE, together with international partners, is co-organising the One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit, to be held on 20 June 2025 at the Académie Nationale de Médecine in Paris. This event forms part of the World Microbiome Partnership (WMP) and aims to develop a shared roadmap to better integrate microbiome science into public health, agriculture, environmental and climate policies, following a One Health approach. 

The summit is held under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic. 

The day will be structured in two parts:

  • A morning of strategic presentations, with international experts discussing the potential contributions of microbiome science to planetary health

  • An afternoon of thematic working groups (human health, technologies, data, food systems, climate, etc.), laying the groundwork for a joint action plan within the WMP.

Leading international scientific speakers
The summit will bring together around forty participants from leading academic institutions, international organisations, public agencies and the private sector.

Including: 

  • Karine Clément, Professor and clinician, Sorbonne University
  • Joël Doré, Research Director, INRAE
  • George Fu Gao, Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Rob Knight, Professor, University of California San Diego (UCSD)
  • Emmanuelle Maguin, Research Director, INRAE
  • Philippe Mauguin, Chair and CEO, INRAE
  • Lita M. Proctor, Acting Vice-President, World Microbiome Partnership (formerly NIH)
  • Thanawat Tiensin, Assistant Director-General and Director of the Animal Production and Health Division, FAO
  • Chadia Wannous, Senior One Health Advisor and Global Coordinator, World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)

…as well as representatives from FAO, EMBL, RIKEN, Wageningen University, Penn State, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and other major institutions involved in microbiome research. 

Programme and registrations: wmp.symposium.inrae.fr 
*Some speakers to be confirmed.

Supporting the development of international research initiatives

The World Microbiome Partnership stems from work carried out since 2022 within the framework of the International Priority Programme (PPI) “Microbiomes and Planetary Health”, coordinated by INRAE. The programme aims to mobilise microbiome science internationally to build a strategic research agenda focused on interactions between diet, microbiota and host, seen as a key lever for action in the field of human health. It is developed with support from the PPI programme.

Find out more about INRAE’s International Priority Programmes (PPI)

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