Digital publication of Prof. Rémy Slama's opening lecture 

Rémy Slama

Causes and external conditions of disease and health

" Infectious diseases have long been the major cause of mortality in Europe. Their progressive control has led to a spectacular increase in life expectancy, giving way to the reign of chronic diseases (cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, cancers). Without denying the influence of genetic polymorphisms and so-called " lifestyle factors " (tobacco, alcohol, dietary imbalances, sedentary lifestyle), the author shows how changes in our ecosystems since the start of the Anthropocene and our current physico-chemical environment (persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, atmospheric pollutants, etc.) contribute to the onset of these chronic diseases.

Slama R., Causes and external conditions of disease and health, Paris, Collège de France, coll. " Leçons inaugurales ",^no 311, 2022.

An environmental epidemiologist, Rémy Slama is Director of Research at Inserm, where he heads the Institut thématique de santé publique and the environmental epidemiology team at the Institut pour l'avancée des biosciences (Inserm, CNRS, Grenoble-Alpes University). He is visiting professor on the annual Public Health Chair at the Collège de France, created in partnership with the national agency Santé publique France, for the academic year 2021-2022.