French Institute for Public Health Research

Pooling expertise and support for public health research

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR : ALFRED SPIRA
SECRETARY GENERAL : NATHALIE DE PARSEVAL

Created in 2004 under a collaborative agreement, the French Institute for Public Health Research remodelled itself as a Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique (GIS) in 2007.
This group is assisted by Inserm for financial management.

Objective

To develop and promote French research into public health, through a partnership that respects the autonomy of involved institutions .

Aims

To define a scientific policy for public health research
To develop a policy for collective management of tools
To set up activities for helping with decision-making and providing expertise 
To develop a communication and valorisation policy

The 24 members of the GIS (the Board of Directors)

President: Didier Houssin, Director General for Health.

Ministries
Ministry for Health, Youth, Sports and Associations (DGS and DREES),
Ministry of Research and Higher Education.

Public health research operators
National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), National Institute for Health and Research (Inserm), Research Institute for Development (IRD), National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP), Union of Catholic Further Education Establishments (UDESCA), Conference of University Presidents (CPU), National Fundation of Political Sciences, Pasteur Institute, National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts.

Public health agencies and operators
The High Authority for Health (HAS), the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products (Afssaps), the French Agency for Food Safety (Afssa), the French Agency for Health and Safety of the Environment and at Work (Afsset), the Institute for Monitoring Health and Safety (InVS), the National Institute for Health Prevention and Education (INPES), the Biomedicine Agency (ABM), the French Institute for Blood (EFS), the National Cancer Institute (INCa).

Social protection organisations
The National Office of Social security for the Self-Employed (RSI), the National Office of Medical Insurance for Salaried Workers (CNAMTS), the National Office of Solidarity and Autonomy (CNSA).

The Scientific Steering Comittee

President: Claude GILBERT, CNRS

• Nathalie Bajos, Inserm
• Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
• Anne Birouste, Univertsity of New South Wales, Australia
• Jean -Baptiste Brunet, EU permanent representation
• Martine Bungener, CERMES – CNRS/Inserm
• Nicolas Meda, centre Muraz, Burkina-Faso
• Fred Paccaud, Faculté de Médecine, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Jack Siemiatycki, Université de Montréal, Canada
  
  

Work Schedule for 2009

• Inventory of public health research groups
  
• Launch of two research proposals:
  
  • Health services research - Public health policies
    
  • Health determinants interactions
    

• Support for the emergence of public health research groups.
• Concerted actions:
  
  • Nanotechnology and health risks
  • Physical, psychological and sensory disabilities
  • Cohorts
    

• Projects aimed at pooling tools for public health research :
  
  • Shared platform providing access to medical and administrative databases
  • Joint health surveys
    

• Valorisation of public health research activities :
  
  • Quarterly review, “Public Health Issues"
  • Organisation of symposiums and seminars.

Address:
Siège de l’Inserm
101, rue de Tolbiac
75654 Paris Cedex 13

Website : www.iresp.net

Telephone : +33 (0)1 44 23 61 45

E-mail :
iresp@iresp.net
nathalie.de-parseval@iresp.net
alfred.spira@iresp.net

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