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Department of epidemiology and clinical research

Head of department

Viviane Kovess-Masfety

Vivianne Kovess Masfety is a psychiatrist specialising in psychiatric epidemiology. She is head of the epidemiology, evaluation and health policies research unit (EA 4069 Epidemiology and health policies) at Paris Descartes University. She has extensive experience in psychiatric epidemiology and has worked on many mental health surveys on samples of the population, in particular in 1996 on those living rough in Paris and in 2005 on 6 to 10 year olds in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. She is currently in charge of a European survey of primary schools in 7 countries. She is involved in many international (World mental health survey initiative) and European (European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders – ESEMeD) surveys where her specialist subjects are the use of the care system for mental health problems and comparison of mental health of men and women. In her recent book “N’importe qui peut-il péter un câble?” [Anybody can break down] (published by Odile Jacob) she considers risk factors for mental health and the results of the most recent research into these factors.

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Members of the department

Partners

  • The Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York is a main partner through Moise Desvarieux the department director
  • University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Health. Department of Health Services and Department of Epidemiology. Exchanges are managed by both Bernard Junod (EHESP) and Stuart Schweitzer (UCLA)
  • Norwegian Institute of Public Health. On-going joint publications by Bernard Junod (EHESP), Per-Henrik Zahl and Jocelyne Clench-Aas (NIPH)
  • The University Paris Descartes will be a close partner through the integration of EA 4069: epidemiology, evaluation and health policies directed by V. Kovess Masfety
  • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London (UK)
  • INSERM U 707, Paris
  • Laboratoire Image, Ville et Environnement (CNRS) ; Faculté de Géographie, Université de Strasbourg
  • UMR-S707 Inserm-UPMC
  • l’équipe AVENIR “Prévention et prise en charge des traumatismes” de l’unité INSERM U897 à Bordeaux
  • ORS PACA, UMR 912 Université d’Aix Marseille

Objectives and missions


The Department of Epidemiology aims to be a teaching and research unit of excellence, reflecting the strength of its faculty, the novelty and high-quality of its partners, the relevance of its research, the applicability of its teaching and service for improving the public health in France.

Why a Department of Epidemiology at EHESP?

Epidemiology is a very large field as well as clinical research and the department has been created to give it visibility and to allow collaboration between the diverse specialists and their students.

For example infectious diseases once considered as outside the chronic disease are becoming a new area for research for cardiovascular disease and cancer; mental health is pertinent in the chronic disease fields due to the importance of physical and mental health comorbidity but in area such as epidemic mental health aspects are important too.

Clinical research is an essential branch of epidemiological through the evaluative epidemiology that links to clinical fields and patients population in each domain.

The department should act as a fertilizer to support emerging creative insides in epidemiology by inclusion on the diverse fields into unique surveys allowing the development of health indicators covering the diverse aspects of health: physical, mental, preventive and curative.

Position

The department is based at the Rennes and Paris sites of EHESP School of public health. It will work in close relation to the biostatistics department as well as the policy and social studies.

It will participate at any teaching into the school in diverse modalities and influence the teaching program and content. In addition he will participate to service such as collaborating within the larger school context in the setup and implementation of research, training and services centers around the world. Such centers benefit from the support of Fondation Merieux and are located in Mali and Laos, with a 3rd center being implemented in Bolivia.

Contacts
Catherine Girard, assistante du département – Catherine.Girard@ehesp.fr – Tél + 33 (0) 2 99 02 25 36
Gaëlle Le Gall, gestionnaire – Gaelle.Legall@ehesp.fr – Tél +33 (0) 2 99 02 27 70
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13 January 2012