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Florence Bodeau-Livinec Maternal and Child Health in sub-saharan Africa
Course and current status
As a physician, I specialized in epidemiology in the field of perinatal and pediatric health during my public health residency. I completed a PhD in epidemiology, during which I spent a year at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Inserm (poste d’accueil), I had the opportunity to be recruited by New York University as an instructor (faculty member) for three years. Since 2010, I have been an associate Professor at the French School of Public Health (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique), based in Rennes for seven years, and then in Paris since 2017. I defended my habilitation à diriger des recherches in 2016.
I conduct my research at Irset (the Institute for Research in Health, Environment, and Occupation) and am in charge of Research Axis 4, “Environmental Exposures and Maternal and Child Health in the Global South,” within the ELIXIR team “Epidemiology and Exposure Science in Health and the Environment”.
Scientific summary
Florence Bodeau-Livinec leads two mother-child cohorts: one in Benin, the Benin MiPPAD cohort, and the other in Mozambique, tracking children born into these cohorts from birth through adolescence.
The goal of these cohorts is to study the impact of pre- and postnatal factors on the health and neurodevelopment of children and adolescents. The factors studied include infectious agents (malaria, HIV, helminths), nutritional factors, and environmental factors (metals, pesticides). She is particularly interested in neurodevelopment and children’s mental health. Her work is inherently multidisciplinary, combining epidemiology, exposure science, and qualitative research.
She has secured significant funding to carry out these projects (National Institutes of Health (NIH, NICHD/Fogarty International Center), French National Research Agency (ANR), ANRS-MIE, Foundation for Medical Research, Fondation de France, totaling over 2.5 million euros as principal investigator).
