An Economist's Perspective on What We Know, Can Know and Need to Know About the Causes of Health Inequality

Session 1: Explaining health inequalities in economics and sociology

Discussion: Cyrille Delpierre (Inserm)

Cyrille Delpierre

Cyrille Delpierre is an epidemiologist and Inserm research director. Since 2021, he has headed the Centre d'Épidémiologie et de Recherche en santé des POPulations (CERPOP), a joint Inserm-Université Toulouse III research unit, and is co-leader of the EQUITY team dedicated to the study of social inequalities in health (SII). Her research focuses on the mechanisms by which the social environment is biologically incorporated, how it can affect biological functioning and thus promote the development and progression of disease. His work has two general objectives: i) to explain SSIs not only in terms of physico-chemical exposures, health behaviours and socially distributed care, but also in terms of psychosocial exposures that can modify biological processes and promote the development of pathologies at a distance; ii) to develop or participate in interventions that can reduce SSIs.