The main function of the Board is to assist Destination Santé with the scientific processing of information and to advise it, where appropriate, on the content of public health messages. The Board must issue opinions on the editorial relevance and scientific quality of the information disseminated by the various media Destination Santé is feeding. It also monitors ethics and the objective nature of the information provided by the Agency.
The Board members:
Take part in validating editorial decisions, assisting the Destination Santé management in defining its editorial options in line with major public health themes.
Enrich the choice of subjects by the Editor by broadening the scope thanks to their experience and knowledge of needs, for instance local needs.
Can take up any issue dealt with or broadcast by the Agency and issue comments on its relevance, scientific objectivity or quality.
The Editorial team may, on an ad hoc basis, call upon the members in order to benefit from their expertise or to identify a person capable of answering specific questions relating to topical events.
The members are full members of the Jury responsible each year for awarding the Destination Santé Prize for Mobilisation in Public Health. In this connection, they are asked to produce an opinion, giving reasons, on the applicants for this prize. They then vote to choose the prizewinner or prizewinners.
Membership of the Board :
The members are chosen - in France and elsewhere - for their academic and professional qualifications and for the guarantee of objectivity which they provide. Their expertise covers as wide a range as possible of health information topics. They are invited to join the Board for one-year periods which may be renewed. The meetings are confidential. The members take part in the meetings quite independently, contributing their scientific and personal expertise.
Membership of the board
Dr André Prost, President of the Scientific Board
The former WHO Director responsible for Relations with Governments and the Private Sector, Dr André Prost is now a director of the GAVI Fund Affiliates which finances the operations of GAVI in 73 countries, including the least developed. André Prost is a graduate in Epidemiology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. He was also the WHO representative to the European Union for many years.
Dr Prost is a senior official and renowned epidemiologist. At the WHO, he successively occupied the posts of Epidemiologist within the Environment Division (1985-1989), of Assistant to the Deputy Director General (1989-1992) and of Director of the Division of non-communicable diseases (1998-1999). He worked in China, Thailand and Ghana for the World Bank. A field worker, he served five years as a rural doctor for the Ministry of Health in Haute-Volta (now Burkina Faso). He also carried out a number of epidemiological evaluations throughout the world, in particular the one under the programme to combat onchocerciasis in the Volta basin (1975-1981). He regularly cooperates in the Master's course on epidemiology at Paris VI University, in the Humanitarian Education Programme of the University of Geneva and in the Public Health Ophthalmology Course in Rabat, Morocco. He has also been a Member of the National Committee for coordinating Research on Development under the French Ministry of Research. From 1996 to 2002, he took part in Switzerland in the Steering Committee for qualitative Health planning in the Canton of Geneva. Lastly, he is the author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications. http://www.gavialliance.org
Pr Abdelhamid Aberkane
Head of the intensive care section of the CHU Benbadis hospital in Constantine, Pr Abdelhamid Aberkane was Minister of Health and Hospital Reform in Algeria from 2001 to 2003. A mayor, member of parliament and a senator, he has chaired the National Algerian Council of Academic Ethics since 2005.
A former President of the WHO Executive Council (1998), Minister of Higher Education (1988-1989), and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Constantine (1970-1974), he is one of the most renowned public health specialists. He has devoted himself for many years to intensive care, training and research. Trained in the biggest French hospitals, he took part in the reform of higher education in 1970 and 1971 which provided a powerful stimulant to Algerian universities. In 1985 he co-founded the Algerian Society of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Emergency Care (SAARSIU). In 1991 he founded the Algerian Journal of Medicine and set up the first “Town Health” Association in Algeria. This Town Health Association in Khroub organises community health and is involved in providing health information, education and communication. It has contributed to the establishment of the Khroub Community Health Centre, the only one of its kind to date in Algeria.
Dr Gabriel André
Dr Gabriel André is a gynaecologist-obstetrician in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin). He works for the Surgical and Obstetrics Centre (CMO/SIHCUS) located in Schiltigheim. Here he is responsible for gynaecological consultations geared to contraception for women at risk, the monitoring of pre-menopausal women with problems and those experiencing a difficult menopause.
A former Chef de Clinique at the Strasbourg Hospitals, he is particularly interested in endocrinological gynaecology, in three domains:
- the effect of sexual steroids on the central nervous system and neuroprotection;
- vascular ageing;
- relations between steroids and cancer, more specifically breast cancer. His expertise is now recognised nationally and internationally in a variety of fields. Gynaecology, of course, but also endocrinology and neurology.
Pr Jean-Pierre Bader
Professor emeritus, Jean-Pierre Bader is one of the founders of INSERM, of which he was the scientific director from 1964 to 1971. He then headed the hepato-gastroenterology unit of the CHU Henri Mondor hospital in Créteil from 1971 to 1992.
A former house doctor in various Paris hospitals, he was adviser to two Ministers of Health, Michel Poniatowski (1973-1974) and Simone Veil (1974-1979). When working for the latter, he conducted the reform of the statutes and regulation governing medical products. Jean-Pierre Bader also chaired the French Gastro-Enterology Society as well as several committees within the Pharmacy and Medical Product Service (DPhM), and later the Medical Product Agency (AFSSaPS). He is also the author of "La Santé en Plan" (published by Santé) and of the White Paper on gastroenterology. For several years, he called for screening for colon-rectal cancer. From 1986 on, at the World Congress on gastro-enterology in Sao Paulo (Brazil), he emphasised the importance of screening for this type of cancer, which is now practised in many countries, including France.
Pr M'hamed Bouzekrini
M'Hamed Bouzekrini is a professor of gynaecology and obstetrics and head of department at the CHU Parnet Hussein Dey hospital in Algiers. He began his medical studies in the hospitals of Algiers where he worked as a house doctor in 1968. He then left for the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon to work as a doctor attached to the gynaecology department and then as a resident doctor. From 1982 to 1984, he continued his training at Baltimore University in the United States.
There he obtained three diplomas:
- Health and family planning;
- Gynaecology and micro-surgery;
- Family planning.
From 1985 to 1989, he was head of the Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Paediatrics Department at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Algiers. Then in 1991 he became President of the Regional Educational Committee of Algiers on gynaecology and obstetrics. As President of the Algerian Society of Fertility and Contraception (SAFEC), he is currently working with six scientific societies, including the Algerian Society of Obstetric Gynaecology and the International Centre for Research into Reproduction.
Pr Phillipe Devillier
Philippe Devillier is Professor of Medicine. He obtained his doctorate at the Paris-Ouest faculty of medicine, and then worked as Senior lecturer at the University of Grenoble from 1994 to 1997. Next he became Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Reims where he taught up until 2004.
He currently heads Clinical biology unit of the Foch hospital in Suresnes, near Paris. Philippe Devillier works in particular on respiratory pathologies such as asthma and chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathies. He conducts research into the inflammatory mechanisms that cause these two diseases. Director of the UPRES EA220 research unit which is dedicated to molecular and pharmacological mechanisms in bronchial obstruction, he was recently appointed Chair of the Pneumology-Ophthalmology-ORL working group at the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products (AFSSaPS). He is also a member of the French Pharmacology Society and of the French Pneumology Society.
Pr Michel Farnier
An internationally renowned expert, Michel Farnier is a Doctor of Medicine and Graduate of the University of Dijon. In 1986, he obtained a diploma in Human Biology, in Clinical Pharmacology and in Pharmacokinetics. The same year he specialised in Endocrinology and Nutritional diseases, also at the University of Dijon.
He currently manages the "Point medical", a private clinic in Dijon. A researcher and teacher, he has been interested for a long time in dyslipemia and, in particular, the genetic aspects of it. He has also conducted major research into type II diabetes and the development of new cholesterol lowering agents. He is the author and co-author of 74 scientific publications, a number of which are particularly renowned.
Pr Jean-Michel Foidart
Pr Jean-Michel Foidart is a Doctor of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (University of Liège, Belgium). He also received intensive training in Biochemistry at the prestigious laboratory of Pr G.R. Martin at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. His other prolonged stays in France and Finland enabled him to acquire solid fundamental and clinical training in reproductive medicine
In 1988, he became Professor of Biology at the University of Liège and then, in 1996, Professor of Gynaecology-Obstetrics and President of the Department of Gynaecology-Obstetrics at the same University. He is the author and co-author of over 350 publications. His current research is geared to fundamental oncology and the impact of steroids on the metabolism of young women, women during the reproductive years and post-menopausal women.
Pr Jean-Paul Giroud
A member of the National Academy of Medicine, of the Committee for the Authorisation of Medical Products, of the Pharmacovigilance Committee and an expert with the WHO, Pr Jean-Paul Giroud is one of the most renowned specialists in pharmacology.
He has also published twelve scientific works on clinical pharmacology and inflammatory pathologies. Moreover, he is one of the authors of the famous Guide Giroud-Hagège on medical products, which is the most important reference as regards information for the general public. A Doctor of Medicine at the Paris Faculty and a Doctor of Philosophy at London University, he was Director of Research Units at the CNRS from 1974 to 2002. In particular he worked on inflammation and its mediators, as well as on cellular and molecular pharmacology. From 1970 to 2002, he was head of the Clinical Pharmacology Unit at Cochin university hospital in Paris.
Marc Gombeaud
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Destination Santé, Marc Gombeaud has been a medical journalist since 1970 for the general public and health professionals. In particular at the Agence Centrale de Presse (ACP) (1970-84) and at the Quotidien du Médecin (1978-87).
A former Regional Adviser, Communication and Public Affairs at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, he worked for the fifty-one countries in the Region. On his return to France, he developed the concept of Destination Santé. He was both Vice-President (1977-85) and then President (1987-91) of the National Association of Medical Information Journalists (ANJIM). Since his departure from the WHO he has remained close to it: • training decision-makers, health professionals and journalists in Europe and Central Asia; • training officials in developing countries in public health crisis communication (WHO Bureau in Lyon). And of course, for over six years, he has been producing radio programmes for the WHO in French and then in Arabic, under the Destination Santé name...
Pr Bernard Lévy
Professor of physiology, responsible for the INSERM Centre of Cardiovascular research in Lariboisière (Paris) and for the Clinical Research Centre in Bichat (Paris), Pr Bernard Levy is Director of Research at INSERM. In particular, he conducted research into fluid mechanics and vascular pathologies. His team uncovered the mechanisms which lead to serious diabetes complications.
He is a Knight of the National Order of Merit. He was also awarded the Jean Binet Award from the Foundation for Medical Research and National Academy of Medicine for his work on the vascular mechanism and angiogenesis. Bernard Levy is a member of the French Cardiology Society, of the French Physiology Association and of the American Heart Association.
Pr Souad Lyagoubi-Ouahchi
Professor of physiology and member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Development Research (IRD) since 2000, Pr Souad Lyagoubi-Ouahchi was Minister of Health in Tunisia from 1983 to 1988. She was an ambassador and permanent representative of Tunisia to the United Nations and specialised agencies in Geneva from 1988 to 1991.
A graduate in neurobiology, she was Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology at the Sousse Hospital in Tunisia. From 1974 to 1983, she was dean of the Sousse Faculty of Medicine. She has worked with several scientific psychiatric societies, for instance as a member of the patrons' committee of the Journal of Clinical, Biological and Therapeutic Psychiatry. Since 1988 she has been a correspondent member elected to the French Academy of Medicine, to the biological science section. She was also the Executive Director of the WHO between 1998 and 2000. Pr Souad Lyagoubi-Ouahchi is a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Pr Fatima Marouan
Pr Fatima Marouan is an endocrinologist and diabetes specialist in Casablanca, Morocco. Head of the "Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases" unit of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital for three years (2002-2005), she has also taught at the Faculty of Medicine in Casablanca.
A teacher and researcher, she has trained a number of specialists in her preferred disciplines. Her main interests are diabetes, paying particular attention, of course, to patient education, and also obesity and thyroid problems. Fatima Marouan has also worked for the California Cardiology Clinic in Casablanca. Having moved into her own surgery a short time ago, she has many plans which we will certainly relay to you in the near future.
Pr Yves Maugars
A University Professor and Hospital Practitioner (PUPH), Yves Maugars has headed the Rheumatology unit of the Nantes University Hospital since 1999. A graduate of the Nantes Faculty of Medicine, he is also a graduate of Chiropody and has a DEA diploma in Bio-mechanics and Bio-materials.
Osteoporosis is one of his main centres of interest, specifically osteoporosis caused by anorexia nervosa, and also absorptiometry. A member of several scientific societies - French Rheumatology Society (SFR), French Antirheumatic Association (AFLAR), Research and Information Group on Osteoporosis (GRIO) and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), he is also involved in interventional rheumatology such as complex and profound infiltrations, fragmentation and calcification of the shoulder ...
Yves Maugars is also director of the Continuing medical Training and Development (FMC) at the Nantes Faculty of Medicine. He regularly organises FMC sessions at both regional and national levels.
Dr Philippe Violon
A neurological doctor, Philippe Violon is Deputy Head of Clinic at the Neurology Unit of the Joseph Bracops Hospital in Brussels (Belgium). Also a graduate of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, his university career has led him to the Free University of Brussels and to the Erasme Hospital.
He is a member of the Belgian Society of Neurology and of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EEANO). A beneficiary of the Fondation Erasme in 1996 and then of the Fondation Cancer et Solidarité in 1996 (Geneva, Switzerland), he is also very interested in public health information. Not only is he one of the partners behind Destination Santé, but he is also one of the managing directors of the Vivio group in Brussels.
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