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HEALTH AND SOCIETY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, UNIVERSITY PIERRE MENDES FRANCE

The links between Health and Society represent a challenge for today’s society which must fulfil two fundamental health requirements: provide a better quality of life for the maximum number of people and propose an efficient and reasoned management of disabilities and the ageing population. Within the “Operation Campus” framework, the “Grenoble University of Innovation” formulated its strategic plan by announcing the creation and reinforcement of thematic centres committed to carrying out research around four major issues that today’s society faces. The HEALTH and SOCIETY research association is part of the HEALTH research area and is backed by the University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble 2 (G2). Its main aim is to promote the links between Research, Education, and Services for the public in the Health domain with a multidisciplinary optic.

The “Health and Society” research association brings together around 100 academics belonging to 14 different structures. The members are mainly research teams but they are made up of NGOs, health and welfare bodies and industry. The research association is also supported by local government organisations. The accent placed on Humanities and Social sciences when dealing with health issues is the distinctive scientific feature of the research association. Research teams from G2 work on health themes but use a humanities and social sciences approach with a multidisciplinary optic; psychology, educational research, sociology, applied economics, public administration, law and regional policy. Alongside the G2 members, research teams from other Grenoble institutions are also involved and provide expertise in fields such as neuroscience or medicine, thus strengthening the multidisciplinary character of the structure. The research association’s activities place a strong emphasis on society, this being one of its main goals.

Why a “Health and Society” Research association?

To create a new HEALTH - SOCIAL SCIENCES dynamic with the following aims: