Infectious Disease Scientist, Epidemiologist, and Sanitation Engineer.​

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Mirelle is the founder of Santé, a biosecurity startup building the data infrastructure to advance biological threat risk modeling and enable early outbreak detection.

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She began her career as a sanitation engineer responding to the cholera outbreak on the ground in Haiti. She later supported Brazil's Ministry of Defense in conducting arbovirus surveillance in the Brazilian Amazon and, most recently, supported the Ministry of Health and ICAP at Columbia University during the 2025 mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone.

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Prior to founding Santé, Mirelle spent five years at Johnson & Johnson, holding various roles across Latin America and the Global Innovation team in the United States.

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She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil and the University of Miami, was a Visiting Scholar at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and holds a Master's degree in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Columbia University.

Her research focuses on global health, catastrophe risk and its implications for health outcomes, and the relationship between sanitation systems and infectious disease outbreaks. She is also a Fellow at the Global Council for Science and the Environment (GCSE).

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Her mission is to develop technologies and systems that help governments, communities, and businesses better anticipate and prepare for infectious disease outbreaks, strengthening resilience, protecting workforces, and safeguarding the systems people depend on.