François Taglioni

François Taglioni
University of La Réunion

Ph.D. and HDR
I am full Professor at the University of Reunion Island

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Introduction
My research focuses on the health and environment links in the field of vector-borne infectious diseases as well as on the analysis of health and animal risks. This research aims at a better understanding of the factors of emergence of infectious diseases by taking into account, in particular, the effects of context and composition. My research also questions the territorial dynamics of small island areas in the world.
Additional affiliations
September 2009 - present
University of Reunion Island
Position
  • Professor (Full)
September 2009 - present
University of Reunion Island
Position
  • Professor (Full)
September 2007 - September 2009
Institute of Research for Development
Position
  • Managing Director
Education
September 2017 - May 2019
University of Strasbourg (faculty of phamacy)
Field of study
  • Aromatherapy Clinic
September 2016 - June 2017
Bordeaux School of Public Health
Field of study
  • Epidemiology
September 2005 - September 2009
Institut of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shao Yang Institut
Field of study
  • Chinese Medicine

Publications

Publications (165)
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Background The effectiveness of preventive measures depends on prevailing attitudes and mindsets within a population. Perceived risk is central to a shift in mindset and behaviour. The present study aims to investigate the perceived severity, vulnerability and precautionary behaviour adopted in response to the influenza A (H1N1) epidemic that broke...
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This article focuses on islands and archipelagos around the world and considers their field of study. It aims first to trace the outline of the geographical object and its limits. Rather than attempting to provide a positive definition of an island, the article posits a category of small insular spaces. Next, by providing a thorough analysis of the...
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Background Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus that causes extensive morbidity and economic loss in many tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Often present in cities, dengue virus is rapidly spreading due to urbanization, climate change and increased human movements. Dengue cases are often heterogeneously distributed throughout cities, sugge...
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This paper analyses data related to the 57 shark attacks that were recorded on Reunion from 1980 to 2017, against the backdrop of an Indian Ocean island that is particularly vulnerable to shark attacks. To address this issue of vulnerability, the discussion focuses on the respective weight of environmental, contextual and individual variables. The...
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Background Human plague cases are reported annually in the central highland regions of Madagascar, where the disease is endemic. The socioenvironmental characteristics and lifestyles of the populations of the central highland localities could be linked to this endemicity. The aim of this study was to determine socioenvironmental determinants that m...
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Mener une thèse de géographie en Cifre au sein d'un projet de recherche pluridisciplinaire et multi-partenarial Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Armand Colin. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Armand Colin. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des condition...
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Low quality in a museum’s internal microclimate can induce both the deterioration of the exhibit collections, as well as affecting the health of visitors, employees and restorers. Starting from this premise, the present study aims to study the perception of visitors and employees of Darvas-La Roche Museum House (Romania) in relation to the air qual...
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Summary On Reunion Island west coast, the challenges of access to the coast are often debated. Indeed, the paths access to the beach from national road are experiencing closing dynamics. This tomogenesis induces conflicts between the users of these and the residents at the origin of the encroachments. In addition, these sinful paths are easily conf...
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On Reunion Island west coast, the challenges of access to the coast are often debated. Indeed, the paths access to the beach from national road are experiencing closing dynamics. This tomogenesis induces conflicts between the users of these and the residents at the origin of the encroachments. In addition, these sinful paths are easily confused wit...
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The attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a key objective for small island developing states (SIDS) and sub-national island jurisdictions (SNIJs). Despite progress in reducing poverty and social inequalities, improving access to education and health and reducing gender inequalities, many are highly vulnerable to shocks. To asses...
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The attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a key objective for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs). Despite progress in reducing poverty and social inequalities, improving access to education and health and reducing gender inequalities, many are highly vulnerable to shocks. To asses...
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Background Human plague cases, mainly in the bubonic form, occur annually in endemic regions of the central highlands of Madagascar. The aim of this study was to compare the dynamics of the epidemiological features of the human plague in two districts of the central highlands region. Methods In Madagascar, all clinically suspected plague cases tha...
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Background Plague is endemic to the central highlands of Madagascar. Sporadic human cases or outbreaks can occur annually in these areas. In Madagascar, the associations between endemicity and the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of the population with regard to this disease remain poorly documented. The aim of this study was to assess KAP...
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Background Human plague cases, mainly the bubonic form, occur annually in the endemic regions of the central highlands of Madagascar. The aim of the study is to compare the evolution of the epidemiological features of human plague in two districts of the central highlands. Methods In Madagascar, all clinically suspected plague cases that meet clini...
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Background: Plague is endemic to the central highlands of Madagascar. Sporadic human cases or outbreaks can occur annually in these areas. In Madagascar, the association between endemicity and the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of populations with regard to this disease remain poorly documented. The aim of this study was to assess KAP rel...
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The French overseas territories occupy a singular position. On 6 July 2020, the number of deaths per million inhabitants (probably the most reliable figure) was still lower than the average for metropolitan France. As far as the department of Mayotte is concerned, Covid-19 finds favourable parameters for its spread with a limited and insufficient s...
Conference Paper
Cette communication se propose d'apporter une meilleure compréhension des degrés de la vulnérabilité sanitaire des territoires insulaires du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien. En dépit de leur niveau de développement humain variable, ils restent tous définitivement au cœur d’une zone géographique sanitairement sensible. Nous apporterons, dans une perspec...
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The health risks associated with arboviruses cover multiple, globalized and amplified social issues that confuse the decision-making spheres of the public, private or political space. The many epidemics of recent years seem to have definitively confirmed the awareness of the need to link epidemiology with human and social sciences. While the study...
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This is my very first poster in a conference. It was a pleasure to interact with all the participants !
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This study shows that the vulnerability of water resources depends on a chain system from «source to consumption», where all interventions can deteriorate access to drinking water in quantity and quality, particularly in neighbourhoods with precarious and dense settlements. In Antananarivo, only 33 % of the population has access to an individual co...
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Abstract This university diploma thesis aims to approach through aromatherapy the possible means of prevention and treatments to protect and support therapies against arboviruses. Our contribution to the study of aromatherapy lies in the originality of our subject, which has only been partially explored to date. Arboviruses, public health problem,...
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Aujourd'hui, la coopération régionale est partout en marche pour la grande majorité des petits espaces insulaires La multiplicité des organisations de coopération et d’intégration régionale qui incluent les petits espaces insulaires l’illustre clairement. Que ce soit dans la Caraïbe, l'océan Indien, l'Océanie insulaire ou encore dans la Méditerrané...
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Aujourd'hui, la coopération régionale est partout en marche pour la grande majorité des petits espaces insulaires La multiplicité des organisations de coopération et d’intégration régionale qui incluent les petits espaces insulaires l’illustre clairement. Que ce soit dans la Caraïbe, l'océan Indien, l'Océanie insulaire ou encore dans la Méditerrané...
Conference Paper
Shark attacks always happened in Reunion Island but became more frequent since 2011, leading to security problems with socio-economic consequences. The French government with local authorities and European funding implemented a global shark risk management plan to reducing the shark risk encounter while conserving the biodiversity, economical and r...
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Tourism is known for being a fundamental and general aspect of today’s—and tomorrow’s—global economy, especially in terms of jobs. In particular, it is an essential economic development option for most countries in the world. However, the sustainability of tourism as an economic activity is a case in point. In other words, it is necessary to query...
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Geographical characteristics and incidence rates for all neighborhoods. (DOCX)
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Estimation of the area covered by vegetation during the two dengue epidemics. See supplementary information for details. (TIFF)
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Dengue incidence rates for each quintile of the variables associated with the 2008–09 (left) and 2012–13 (right) epidemics. Each boxplot represents the first, second and third quartiles of incidence rates across neighborhoods in the quintile of the explanatory variable, whiskers represent 1.5 of the inter-quartile range, empty dots are outliers (ne...
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Model validation for 2008–09 and 2012–13 epidemics. (A) Association between observed and predicted incidence rates with regression line (dotted line) and regression coefficient (with 95% CI); the solid line has a slope of 1. (B) Distribution of residuals obtained by subtracting predicted from observed incidence rate and plotted as a histogram. (C)...
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Pearson correlation between dependent variables. The lower triangle of the tables shows correlation coefficients whereas the upper triangle shows p-values. (DOCX)
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Multivariable model for the 2008–09 epidemic, with data aggregated at the block of houses scale. (DOCX)
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Estimation of vegetation coverage and model validation. (DOCX)
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Variables used in regression analysis and their quintiles. (DOCX)
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Study site. See text for details. (EPS)
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Multivariable models for the 2008–09 and 2012–13 epidemics, with variables categorized in terciles. (DOCX)
Conference Paper
This conference will focus on the refusal by island societies to be politically integrated into and, more resolutely still, culturally assimilated by, outlying mainlands. French overseas departments and territories, Corsica, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Easter Island, the Faroe and Åland Islands—among many others—provide particularly eloquent illustrations...
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« La spécificité insulaire n’existe pas, sauf pour ceux qui y croient » lançait Rémy Knafou (cité par Péron, 1996, p.39) en guise de provocation. Mais au fond, l’essentiel n’est pas de savoir si les territoires insulaires sont ou pas des lieux structurellement et fondamentalement différents. Quelle que soit la manière dont on les considère, comme d...
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En dépit de leur rôle primordial sur l’équilibre des écosystèmes marins, les requins restent au centre d’une hésitation des pouvoirs publics entre leur nécessaire préservation et le maintien des activités nautiques de loisirs. Les sports côtiers se pratiquent dans l’île de La Réunion depuis une cinquantaine d’année. De façon concomitante, un touris...
Technical Report
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Ce rapport de recherche propose d'apporter une meilleure compréhension des degrés de vulnérabilité de la Nouvelle-Calédonie face aux maladies émergentes infectieuses à transmission vectorielle. En dépit de son niveau de développement humain élevé, la Nouvelle-Calédonie reste au cœur d’une zone géographique, la Mélanésie, économiquement et sanitaire...
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Reunion island is particularly exposed to shark attacks which have been more frequent than in any other area in the world. This article objectives are twofold. On the one hand it offers an analysis of the statistics of the 46 shark attacks between 1980 and 2014. Using the only interactive map created of these attacks to this day, several explicativ...
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La Réunion est particulièrement exposée au risque d’attaques de requins, globalement très supérieur à celui que connaissent d’autres territoires concernés dans le monde notamment en terme de mortalité. D’une part, cet article propose une analyse de la base de données sur les 46 attaques répertoriées entre 1980 et 2014. À partir de l’élaboration d’u...
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http://espacepolitique.revues.org/3330
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La problématique générale du programme s’inscrit dans le champ de recherches ouvert par la notion de risque dans le domaine de la santé-environnement. C'est en effet dans ce rapport complexe à l'environnement, que toute épidémie trouve des terrains plus ou moins favorables à son développement. Ce faisant, d’un point de vue méthodologique, on bute r...
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Cette communication se propose d'apporter une meilleure compréhension des degrés de la vulnérabilité des outre-mers français face aux maladies (ré)-émergentes infectieuses. En effet, en dépit de leur niveau de développement humain élevé, ils restent définitivement au cœur de zones géographiques économiquement et sanitairement sensibles. Leur dévelo...
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Le concept d’archipel semble tout autant polysémique que les formes qu’il prend sont polymorphes. De quelles forces l’archipel nait-il donc ? Qu’est-ce qui crée la cohésion entre les îles d’un ensemble insulaire : l’histoire ou la géographie ? L’imaginaire de l’archipel s’appuie sur des cartes où des grappes d’îles se détachent sur le bleu des mer...
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http://espacepolitique.revues.org/3034
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http://espacepolitique.revues.org/3168
Conference Paper
Economies and societies of the small insular spaces within the intertropical area are still marked by the colonial history that is and was based on the plantation economy since the 17th century. From a typology of ethno-religious variations in small island spaces, this communication establishes the link between human development level, identity and...
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Ce rapport se propose d'interroger les degrés de vulnérabilité de La Réunion et de Mayotte, et d'une façon plus générale les états du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien, face aux maladies émergentes. En dépit de leur statut français et européen ces deux territoires restent au coeur d’une zone géographique, le sud-ouest de l'océan Indien, économiquement et...
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Les tentatives de coopération et dʼintégration régionale sont nombreuses dans les Amériques depuis déjà plusieurs décennies voire plusieurs siècles. De lʼAlaska à la Terre de feu ce sont aujourd'hui plusieurs organisations régionales à vocations plurielles qui parfois se chevauchent, se superposent ou sʼentrechoquent. Il se dessine nettement un blo...
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Pr. François Taglioni et Dr. Michel Cartoux Pandémie grippale par le virus H1N1 à La Réunion : analyse des perceptions et des comportements face au risque épidémique Entre novembre 2009 et avril 2010 une enquête de type KABP (connaissances, attitudes, croyances et comportements) a été mené à La Réunion dans un contexte mondial de pandémie grippal...
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La région du sud-ouest de l'océan Indien s'appréhende bien davantage en termes de diversité que d'unité. On y trouve La Réunion qui est un îlot de prospérité avec cependant des problèmes spécifiques de chômage, de retards sociaux ou encore de santé publique (alcoolisme, diabète). Les situations de Maurice, Mayotte et des Seychelles indiquent un déc...
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À l'heure où le développement durable est désormais ancré dans de multiples sphères scientifiques, économiques et politiques, cet ouvrage interroge les spécificités avérées ou supposées de ce concept dans les petits espaces insulaires (PEI). Suite aux objectifs fixés lors du Sommet de la Terre de Rio (1992) renouvelés lors de la Conférence de Mauri...
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From a typology of ethno-religious variation in small island spaces, this paper establishes the link between human development level, identity and otherness to assess the risks of fragmentation and balkanization of spaces and insular societies. For multicultural societies, identity and otherness can coexist if social peace is established. Otherwise...
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Cet article se propose de faire le point sur l'insularisme qui est ainsi décrit dans les mots de la géographie : « propension qu'ont souvent les insulaires à cultiver à l'excès leur spécificité, pour mieux affirmer leur identité culturelle ou bénéficier d'avantages non moins spécifiques ». Cette définition se rapproche de celle de régionalisme dans...
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Les virus sont, plus encore qu'hier, devenus sans frontières avec la mondialisation et l'accélération des échanges humains à l'échelle mondiale. Le chikungunya, jusque-là endémique à la zone intertropicale, est sortie de son cadre géographique de référence : les pays du sud et il se présente aujourd'hui aux portes de l'Europe et au-delà. Comment un...
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Parmi le grand nombre possible d’aléas dans le sud-ouest de l'océan Indien (cyclones, pluies torrentielles, volcanisme, tsunami, maladies infectieuses …) certains sont plus dévastateurs et présents que d'autres. L'épidémie de chikungunya, qui s'est déroulée de 2004 à 2006, est sans doute l'événement majeur de santé publique qui a marqué les hommes,...

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