After defending his thesis on 14 February 2024, Ismaila Ouedraogo was convincing both the jury of his thesis defence and the jury that awarded the prize. He will receive an award, accompanied by an endowment, for the interdisciplinary nature of his work as part of the BPH AHeaD team Ismaila […]
The BBPH association invites you to a seminar, open to all, for a joint reflection on these key issues. Registration is optional, but helps us to estimate the number of participants: Répondre au sondage – Bien s’informer en santé publique – Evento Come and join us ! […]
In response to the VITISAFE call for projects, the EPICENE team at the BPH has received funding from the Ecophyto plan to be part of a multidisciplinary project. Based on a ‘One Health’ approach, they will be working on the links between pesticides and global health in wine-growing areas […]
Researchers from the BPH – LEHA team have conducted a scoping review, published in Ophthalmology Science, to investigate the potential role of infectious agents in the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). After screening over 800 articles, we included 40 studies spanning human data, animal research, in vitro experiments, and […]
Ariel Guerra-Adames, Marta Avalos Fernandez and Emmanuel Lagarde, from the BPH’s AHeaD and SISTM teams, have recently developed a generative AI system that reproduces human biases in emergency triage in order to better identify these biases. They demonstrated that gender, even when it has no impact on the diagnosis, has an influence on triage, leading […]
Sarcomas are a rare type of cancer that develops in the connective tissue of organs. We suspect some environmental factors may contribute to their development, but to the present day our understanding of these factors is very limited. To better understand the origin of sarcomas, a research platform called ETIOSARC has recorded data from around […]
IPORA Conference:Strengthening Africa-Europe academic partnershipto improve cross-sector governance IPORA Major Research Program is organizing a scientific Conference from Wednesday April 2 to Friday April 4, 2025: “Strengthening Africa-Europe academic partnership to improve cross-sector governance”. This conference, organized with the support of the GHiGS team (Global Health in the Globa South), aims to inform and debate […]
In collaboration with teams from Santé Publique France, the BPH BIOSTAT team is modelling four scenarios for reducing the proportion of smokers aged 18 to 75 in the French population between 2024 and 2035, given that smoking is one of the main risk factors for myocardial infarction […]
Based on XENAIR case-control data from the E3N cohort, the BPH BIOSTAT team, in close collaboration with the Environmental Cancer Prevention team at the Léon Bérard center have produced a study suggesting that women living in areas with the highest concentrations of PCB153 between 1990 and 2011 had a higher risk […]
The PHARes Translational Population Health Research team at the BPH has developed a promising new algorithm for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. This breakthrough comes against a backdrop of active research into the early detection of this neurodegenerative disease. Development of algorithm and modelling Lisa Le […]
The 14th meeting of the Statistics and Mathematics Applied to Cancer Club (SMAC) were held on 23 and 24 January in Bordeaux Co-organised by Virginie Rondeau and Carine Bellara from the BPH’s BIOSTAT and EPICENE teams. These two-day workshops brought together 130 participants to discuss statistical concepts for estimating the […]
In a cohort of elderly residents of Bordeaux, researchers from the BPH – LEHA team found how morphological changes of the retina contribute to the susceptibility to Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss in older adults in France. The results are published in the journal Ophthalmology. Example of a […]
The next Inserm 30′ santé webcast will focus on “Stroke: zoom in on small vessels”. Visit the Inserm YouTube channel for this new edition of ‘30 minutes Santé’ dedicated to cerebrovascular accidents (strokes). Speakers include Stéphanie Debette, Grand Prix Inserm 2024, , PU-PH neurologist, epidemiologist, former director of the Bordeaux […]
Stéphanie Debette, former director of the BPH, has just been appointed to the French Academy of Sciences, crowning an already outstanding career as an eminent neurologist and epidemiologist. This distinction is accompanied by another appointment: she will become director of the Paris Brain Institute from January 2025. Stéphanie Debette, founder and former […]
The next Journée des Jeunes Chercheur-e-s of the Société Française de Biométrie (SFB) will be held on 22 January 2025 at the Institut de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED), the Bordeaux Population Health (BPH) centre and the Public Health Department of the University of Bordeaux. This event is organised […]
