It was during the Foundation’s event, Les Rencontres de la Fondation, on November 5, 2025, at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne that the Foundation awarded its 2025 Research Prizes. Three outstanding laureates were recognized, with two prizes of 3000 € and one honorary award.
Maëlle Calandra
Research prize worth €3,000
Maëlle Calandra is an anthropologist currently working as a research fellow at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). Her research lies at the intersection of the anthropology of disasters, the anthropology of human-environment relations and the anthropology of migration. It focuses on island societies in the South Pacific, particularly in Vanuatu.
The Foundation wished to reward Maëlle Calandra for her research on humanitarian aid, perceptions of risk and displacement linked to disasters and climate change in the Pacific and Vanuatu.
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Rose André Faye
€3,000 “Future” Research Prize
Rose André Faye is a health anthropologist and research fellow at IRD. Her doctoral research focused on women who use drugs in Senegal. She currently works with the TransVIHMI team in health anthropology in the field of HIV and vulnerabilities.
The Foundation wished to reward Rose André Faye for her research in socio-anthropology of health, on the trajectories of women drug users in Senegal.
Her prize was presented to her by Françoise Fromageau, Vice-President of the French Red Cross Foundation.
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Anne-Marie MOULIN
Honorary Award
Anne-Marie Moulin is a doctor and philosopher, emeritus research director at the CNRS. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure and former hospital intern, she has divided her life between medicine, philosophy and social sciences. Her publications include Le dernier langage de la médecine (The Last Language of Medicine); Histoire de l’immunologie de Pasteur au Sida (The History of Immunology from Pasteur to AIDS); L’aventure de la vaccination (The Adventure of Vaccination); Perilous Modernity; Le médecin du prince (The Prince’s Physician); Islam et révolutions médicales : le labyrinthe du corps (Islam and Medical Revolutions: The Labyrinth of the Body); La vie avec les virus (Life with Viruses) (2023), and numerous articles on historical, epistemological and ethical issues relating to the governance of life and care of the body.
The Foundation wished to reward Anne-Marie Moulin for her research work and her exceptional career dedicated to scientific and medical ethics, particularly in the Arab-Muslim world.
Her prize was presented to her by Yann Bertrand, Director General of the Monegasque Red Cross.
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About the Foundation’s research awards
The French Red Cross Foundation’s Research Awards aim to highlight completed scientific work or innovative areas of research dedicated to humanitarian and social issues, both in the Global North and South.
Open to all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities and to all nationalities, the awards recognize scientific excellence and human commitment, promote scientific knowledge, ethical reflection, and social innovation to advance action in service of the most vulnerable.
