Mathilde Touvier, visiting professor at the Collège de France on the Public Health Annual Chair in 2022-2023, will givea lecture on Saturday October 5, 2024 at 11 h, entitled " Industrial food: what impact on our health ? ", in the company of Coralie Schaub, journalist specializing in environmental issues at Libération.
The conference will take place at the Marguerite Yourcenar media library, 41 rue d'Alleray, Paris 15e.
The impact of nutrition on health is well established. More than 140 000 cases of cancer could be avoided each year in France by modifying our lifestyles, with nutritional factors being, just after tobacco, the main levers that can be activated to improve prevention. Thanks to experimental approaches and major epidemiological studies such as the NutriNet-Santé cohort, research has recently made great strides in understanding the health impacts of these factors. This conference will provide an update on the latest knowledge in this field and on current research avenues.
Mathilde Touvier is Director of Research at Inserm and Principal Investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort. After six years at the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (Anses) and a year as a visiting researcher at Imperial College London, she joined the EREN Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (U1153 Inserm/Inrae/Cnam/Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), which she will head in 2019. She coordinates research on the links between nutrition and health (e.g. principal investigator of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2020-2025 on industrial food, additives, food processes and health), with over three one hundred twenty-five publications in this field. She is an expert for several institutions, including the French National Cancer Institute, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (France 2030 Steering Committee), and the international Global Burden of Disease network. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-ICR). Mathilde Touvier was visiting professor at the Collège de France's Public Health Annual Chair in 2022-2023.
These lectures, aimed at the general public, reflect the variety of disciplines present at the Collège de France : history, economics, sociology, literature, but also biology, chemistry, mathematics and evolutionary sciences.
With this new event, the libraries of the City of Paris are fulfilling their mission to disseminate knowledge and combat misinformation by offering the public opportunities to decode and explore certain areas of knowledge in greater depth. The aim is also to open a window onto the world of research and how it works, and to bring Parisians closer to an exceptional institution, the Collège de France, which has been at the heart of the city's intellectual and scientific life for five centuries.
