Peer-reviewed articles
2025 (submitted) - Ceballos, K., Colombe, S., Kreppel, K., Van Bortel, W., Shyaka, A., and M. Meudec. Engaging Farmers in the Control of Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks in Rwanda and Neighbouring Countries: Key Insights from a Narrative Review. CABI One Health.
Comprehensive review identifies key barriers and facilitators to farmer participation in Rift Valley Fever control programs, providing evidence-based recommendations for community-centered disease prevention strategies in endemic regions.
2025 (submitted) - Niyonsaba, T., Ndayisaba, R., Dumont, C., Muntabaye. F, Muhoza, C., Lampaert, E., Amisi, D.A., Uwimana, F., Bucumi, A., Irabaheta,N., Marisasi, D., Bigirimana,I., Ndayiragije, S., Rwimo, A., Nishemezwe, D., Nimubona, D., Niyomwungere, L., Ndihokubwayo, F., Iradukunda, O., Irambona, E., Nicobaharaye, PC., Sindayikengera, J., Van Bortel, W., Colombe, S. and M. Meudec*. Understanding perceptions of malaria control measures in Burundi: a qualitative study. Malaria Journal
26. 2025 - Laisnez, V., Brosius, I., Van Bortel, W., Meudec, M., Janssens, A., Madl, J., Aye, A. J., Bruggeman, L., Godderis, L., Dhaeze, W., van Durme, M., Hercot, D., Talboom, I., Bossu, J., Barche, B., Catteau, L., and S. Colombe. Increasing trend of scabies in Belgium, 2000–2023. Arch Public Health 83, 197
Epidemiological study reveals significant increase in scabies cases across Belgium (2011-2023), with highest rates among young adults (15-24yo), urban residents,
and minoritized populations
25. 2025 - Sawah, E., Kielmann, K., Joffe, M.A., Nijs, E., Elnakib, S., Sy, H., Aljadeeah, S., Van Den Bergh, R., Derluyn, E., and M. Meudec. The nexus of health and labour exploitation among migrant populations in the Eastern Mediterranean region and Türkiye: a scoping review. F1000Research
24. 2025 - Gales, M., Phillips, E.Y., Zilversmit Pao, L., Dubray, C., Rodriguez Ribas Elizalde, C., Heidari, S., Degail, M.-A., Meudec, M., Siddiqui, M.R., Carter, S. Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health
Our study reveals critical gender gaps in outbreak responses across low and middle-income countries, emphasizing how sex- and gender-disaggregated data collection could save lives in future epidemics.
23. 2024 - Bangwen, E., Akoachere, J-F. T. K., Mabongo, D., Bime, A., De Vos, E., Meudec, M., Ngwa, W., Fru-Cho, J., Esso, L., van der Sande, M., Ingelbeen, B., Colombe, S. and L. Liesenborghs. Outbreak of Cholera in the Southwest region of Cameroon, 2021-22: an epidemiological investigation. BMC Public Health
22. 2024 - Ishema, I, Colombe, S, Ndayisenga, F, Uwibambe, E, Van Damme, E, Meudec, M, Rwagasore, E, Mugwaneza, D, Van Bortel, W and A, Shyaka, One Health investigation and response to a nationwide outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Rwanda – March to December 2022. One Health
21. 2024 - Eger, H., Chacko, S., El-Gamal, S., Gerlinger, T., Kaasch, A. Meudec, M., Munshi, S. Naghipour, A., Rhule, E., Yatirajula Kanaka, S., López Uribe, O., Towards a Feminist Global Health Policy: power, intersectionality, and transformation. PLOS Global Public Health
Our new framework challenges global health power dynamics by centering intersectionality and community voices, offering a transformative feminist approach to achieve genuine health equity worldwide.
20. 2024 - Marin, A., Meudec, M., Couture, V., Rondeau, D., Ferland, P.-M. et C. Bouffard, La recherche en éthique organisationnelle en santé et services sociaux : l’exemple de la programmation de recherche ETH-O-SSS. Enjeux et contributions possibles des sciences sociales. Ethica
19. 2023 - Meudec M*, Affun-Adegbulu C and Cosaert T. Review of health research and data on/with racially minoritised groups: Implications for addressing racism and racial disparities in public health practice and policies in Europe: a study protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research 12:57
Groundbreaking research aims to transform European health research by promoting race-conscious approaches and challenging historical data gaps that have hindered addressing racial health disparities in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands
18. 2023 - Affun-Adegbulu, C., Cosaert, T., Meudec, M., et al. (2023) Decolonisation initiatives at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: ready for change? BMJ Global Health
Researchers in Belgium document their ongoing journey to transform power imbalances and epistemic violence while confronting the institutional challenges of meaningful decolonization in global health.
17. 2023 - Ddungu, C., Manirankunda, L., Meudec, M. et al. Sub-Saharan African communities’ experiences and engagement with COVID-19 and the related control strategies in Antwerp, Belgium. International Journal of Equity in Health 22, 53
16. 2023 - Valia, D, Kouanda, JS, Ingelbeen, B, Derra, K, Kaboré, B, Kiemdé, F, Rouamba, T, Rouamba, E, Hien, FS, Campbell, L, Meudec, M, Robert, A, Tinto, H, van der Sande, MAB, Rodriguez Villalobos, H, Healthcare seeking outside healthcare facilities and antibiotic dispensing patterns in rural Burkina Faso: A mixed methods study. Trop Med Int Health
15. 2022 - Nöstlinger, C., Van Landeghem, E., Vanhamel, J., Rotsaert, A., Manirankunda, L., Ddungu, C., Reyniers, T., Katsuva, D., Vercruyssen, J., Dielen, S., Meudec, M. COVID-19 as a social disease: qualitative analysis of COVID-19 prevention needs, impact of control measures and community responses among racialized/ethnic minorities in Antwerp, Belgium. International Journal of Equity in Health 21, 67
14. 2022 - Peckeu-Abboud, L., Mangoni, P., Chammam K., Kwete, P., Mutombo Lupola, P., Vanlerberghe, V., Yango, J., Meudec, M., Ifufa, C., van der Sande, MAB., Madinga Ntwan, J., Mbala, P., 2022, Drivers of Routine and Outbreak Vaccination Uptake in the Western Democratic Republic of Congo: An Exploratory Study in Ten Health Zones. Vaccines. 10(7):1066
13. 2021 - Livingstone, A-M., Meudec, M., and R. Harim, Le profilage racial à Montréal, effets des politiques et des pratiques organisationnelles. Nouvelles Pratiques Sociales. 31 (2): 126-144
12. 2021 - Vanhamel, J., Meudec, M., Van Landeghem, E. et al. (2021). Understanding how communities respond to COVID-19: experiences from the Orthodox Jewish communities of Antwerp city. International Journal of Equity in Health 20, 78
Orthodox Jewish communities in Antwerp demonstrated remarkable resilience during COVID-19's first wave, mobilizing religious leaders and cultural resources to develop community-centered solutions that balanced pandemic control measures with cultural and religious needs.
11. 2021 - Giguere AMC, Lebel P, Morin M, Carnovale V, Meudec M, Rodriguez C, Légaré F, Champagne L, Martineau B. Karazivan P, Durand PJ, Family medicine supervisors’ preferences for improving their teaching skills in senior care. Family Medicine. 53 (4) : 267-274
10. 2019 - Sidnell, J., Meudec, M., and M. Lambek, ‘Ethical Immanence’, Imminence and Immanence in Ethical Life. Anthropological Theory. 19 (3).
9. 2019 - Béchacq D., and M. Meudec, ‘Introduction’, Special Issue "Les migrations et la Caraïbe : (dés)ancrages, mouvements et contraintes". Recherches Haïtiano-Antillaises, 8: 9-24
8. 2017 - Meudec, M.*, Ordinary Ethics of Spiritual Work and Healing in Saint Lucia, or Why Not To Use The Word Obeah. Small Axe. The Caribbean Platform for Criticism, 21(1), N.52: 17-32
Thrilled to share my first English-language publication in Small Axe — an ethnographic analysis that reframes 'obeah' terminology and its moral implications within spiritual healing practice in Saint-Lucia
7. 2017 - Meudec, M.*, Anthropologie et blanchité, une histoire cousue de fil blanc, Raisons sociales. Critique, Décolonisation des savoirs. Dossier spécial : « Blanc.he.s comme neige ? »
5. 2017 - Meudec, M.*, Pour une anthropologie décoloniale au service de la justice sociale, Réseau d’Études Décoloniales
4. 2015 - Meudec, M.*, Processus d'altérisation de l'obeah à Ste-Lucie. Anthropologica, Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, 57, 1 : 225-237
2. 2015 - Giguere A, Proust F, Karazivan P, Martineau B, Rodriguez C, Meudec M, et al. Family medicine forum research proceedings 2014: clinical supervisors’ perceived training needs to deliver elder care and teach it to their trainees. Can Fam Physician. 2015;61(2):S1–S76
1. 2009 - Meudec, M.*, Éthique pragmatique de la recherche anthropologique, le cas d'une étude de l'obeah à Ste-Lucie. Cahiers de Recherches Sociologiques, 48 : 155-174
Reports
2018 - Meudec, M.*, Analyse de l’influence et des impacts des croyances religieuses sur la perception des maladies, les représentations et le comportement de la population face au choléra à Jacmel”. With the LIRAS team, funded by Francophone University Agency and Université Notre-Dame d’Haïti.
2016 - Truchon, K. & Meudec, M.*, Amplifier Gamelin, Rapport sur la première opération d’écoutes. With Karoline Truchon), Amplifier Montréal.
Translations (English to French)
2019 - Daswani, G., On the Whiteness of Anthropology / Sur la blanchité de l’anthropologie, translated by Meudec M. Everyday Orientalism
2016 - Kegler, A., The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility. translated by Meudec M. The Huffington Post, 2016 July 25. Link