Denis BARD
avenue du Pr. Léon Bernard - 35043 - Rennes Cedex
Tel: +33 (0) 2 99 02 29 32 (work) / +33 (0) 2 99 02 29 32 (personal) / +33 (0) 6 13 80 64 15
E-mail: denis.bard@ehesp.fr (work)
Discipline(s): Epidemiology & Risk Assessment
Current position: EHESP Professor
Diploma(s): Medical doctor, Ph.D., M.P.H
Affiliation(s): Department of Quantitative Methods in Public Health
Curriculum
1998-2011 Professor, department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, EHESP School of Public Health, Rennes (France). Specialized in epidemiology of environmental risks, health risk assessment of environmental contaminants
1994-1998 Head, Laboratory of Epidemiology & Health Detriment Analysis, Fontenay-aux-Roses (France)
1993 Research scientist, Laboratory of Epidemiology & Health Detriment Analysis, Institute for Radioprotection & Nuclear Safety (IPSN), Fontenay-aux-Roses (France)
1987-1992 Research scientist, Health studies Department (Service des Etudes Médicales) within the French Utility Corporation (Électricité et Gaz de France, Paris)
1989-1990 Research scientist, National Institute for Health & Medical Research (INSERM) Network for the Development of Environmental Epidemiology in Vietnam
1986 Research scientist, RISC-Santé Network, Regional Institute of Health (ORSIF), Paris: conducted health risk assessment of PCBs and their thermal degradation products
1984-1985 Research scientist, Health & Development Institute, Department of Public Health, Paris VI University: Implementing the National Reference Centre for Imported Diseases
1983 Medical doctor for the oil industry, North Sea
1981-1982 “French Doctor”, Médecins sans Frontières
1978-1992 General Practitioner and Clinical Nutrition Specialist, Bichat University Hospital (Paris)
Research
Currently investigating interactions between socio-economic status, environmental exposure (air pollution) and health risks (asthma and myocardial infarction, multiple sclerosis) and epidemiological patterns related to these issues
Expertise
2013-1997 Vice-president elect (2001) and Appointed member, Committee of Prevention and Precaution, Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development (see Reports of the Committee).
2013-2012 Appointed member, Committteee for the assessment of the 2nd National Environmental Health Action Plan
Courses
In charge of coordinating EHESP Master of Public Health Epidemiology module M1 from 2008; contributor to EHESP epidemiology courses in general
Coordinator, Risk Assessemnt Module, Master of Modelization in Clinical Pharmacology & Epidemiology