CSS 14 – Research in public health and human and social sciences
Last updated on 29 September 2025
Scope
The CSS 14 sectoral scientific committee is interested in all public health research aimed at understanding the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis – knowledge, intervention, impact – in France and in countries with low and intermediate resources, in particular:
Research into the prevalence and incidence of HIV infection, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis;
Large-scale surveys of behaviour and social perceptions of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis;
Research on the therapeutic context: people with the disease, professionals, institutions, compliance;
Other research in human and social sciences.
Chair
Gilles WANDELER
University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Marie PREAU
Unit UMR 1296 ‘Radiation: Defence, Health, Environment’ University Lumière Lyon 2, Institute of Psychology
Members
Anders BOYD
(Epidemiologist and biostatistician at GGD Amsterdam)
Sylvie DEUFFIC BURBAN
(Economist, IAME U1137 Inserm, Paris)
Désiré Lucien DAHOUROU
(Epidemiologist, IRSS Ouagadougou)
Mathieu MAHEU-GIROUX
(Modelling epidemiologist McGill University (CANADA))
Nathalie DE CASTRO
(Infectious Disease Specialist (TB) Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France)
Anne GOSSELIN
(INED Public Health )
Thi Giang HOANG
(Public Health Faculty of Public Health, Haiphong University of Medicine and Pharmacy)
Mélanie PLAZY
(Epidemiologist, interventional research ISPED Bordeaux)
Kévin JEAN
(Epidemiologist, Modeller MESuRS Laboratory – Cnam )
Christel PROTIERE
(Economist, psycho-sociologist SESSTIM Marseille)
Charlotte MARTIN
(Infectious disease specialist, Saint-Pierre University Hospital / Free University of Brussels)
Khoudia SOW
(Doctor and anthropologist Ministry of Health, Senegal)
Albert Gautier NDIONE
(Socio-anthropologist Department of Sociology Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.)
Stéphanie TCHIOMBIANO
(Political Science and Public Health University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Isidore TRAORE
(Epidemiologist, Muraz Centre, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso)
Cristina ROSATI
(Northern Association Representative – TRT5 Inter-Association Group for Treatment & Therapeutic Research, Family Committee)
Sofia FATHI
(Southern Association Representative – Community Research Officer Association for the Fight Against SIDA)