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Meeting of the BPH Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) – 12 and 13 May 2025

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The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) held its meeting at Bordeaux Population Health on 12 and 13 May 2025.
For this edition, we had the great pleasure of welcoming five leading international scientists in public health.
This visit is one of the highlights of the centre’s life

 

 

Photos : L. Houinou                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      from left to right :
Pr Rodolphe Thiébaut, Directeur du BPH Bordeaux, Pr. Arnaud Chioléro Université de Fribourg, Pr. Laura Richert, Directrice adjointe du BPH Bordeaux, Pr. Sylvia Richardson MRC Medical Research Council Cambridge, Pr. Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Munich, Pr. John Gallacher Dementias Platform UK Oxford and Pr. Anneke Hesseling Centre Desmond Tutu TB (DTTC) à l’Université de Stellenbosch

 

 

 

 

 

 

The role of the Scientific Advisory Board, or SAB, is to evaluate the centre’s overall scientific activity. It makes recommendations, in particular on the strategic direction of scientific research within the centre for the coming years.

 

 

 

 

The 2025 BPH session had the participation of the following members:

 

 

      • Prof. Sylvia Richardson is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit since 2012. She was previously Chair of Biostatistics at Imperial College London (2000-2012), Director of Research at INSERM, where she worked for 20 years, and former President of the Royal Statistical Society (2021-2022).
        Her areas of expertise include statistics and statistical modelling applied to public health, in particular the analysis of large-scale biomedical data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      • Prof. Dr. Bertram Müller-Myhsok heads the Statistical Genetics Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich. He also holds a position as Assistant Professor of Human Genetics at the Technical University in Munich, among other roles.
        His expertise is focused on the development and application of new statistical and computational methodologies applied to the genetics of complex diseases, in particular neurological and psychiatric disorders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      • Prof. Arnaud Chioléro is a physician, epidemiologist and professor of population health at the University of Fribourg, as well as associate professor at McGill University’s School of Global and Population Health. He is director of the Population Health Laboratory (#PopHealthLab) and academic co-director of the Swiss School of Public Health.
        His scientific expertise covers the epidemiology of chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers), public health surveillance, prevention, and the analysis of the determinants of health across the whole life course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      • Prof. John Gallacher, heads the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) at Oxford University in the UK, with the aim of aggregating cohort data including genetic, clinical and cognitive information. His expertise combines genetics, informatics and data science to advance understanding of brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      • Prof. Anneke Hesseling is Professor and Director of the Paediatric TB Research Programme at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Her career has been marked by a commitment to safer and more effective treatment and prevention strategies for tuberculosis in children.

 

 

 

 

The meeting opened with a general presentation of the BPH research centre by its director, Professor Rodolphe Thiébaut.

 

 

 

The next part of this two-day programme was dedicated to the examination of the projects carried out by each of the research teams in recent years.