Question 16772 — health

Summary

Mr. Aurélien Le Coq questions the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities on the planned reorganizations concerning Public Health France and on the consequences that the gradual dismantling of its missions would have. Created in 2016, Public Health France ensures monitoring of the state of health of the population, scientific expertise, prevention and response to health crises. It is based on a model which brings together the production of data, scientific analyses, recommendations and prevention actions through prevention campaigns on a general public scale (tobacco-free month, heatwave, etc.). The Government is currently considering the transfer to the Ministry of Health of several structuring missions, in particular the health reserve, strategic stocks and national prevention campaigns. An evolution of missions surveillance would also be under study on the basis of an IGAS report which was not made public in 2025 and a new mission which questions the place and independence of Public Health France in the region. These choices question the coherence of the system. They raise fears of a questioning of the independence of scientific expertise, which presupposes stable production conditions far removed from political or political constraints. media. Prevention campaigns, in particular, are long-term strategies whose credibility rests on their inclusion in an independent scientific framework. They also question the very organization of the State's health response, today based on prevention, health monitoring as well as on cooperation between national and regional levels, with regional units making it possible to report territorial specificities at the national level and being close to local decision-makers to provide their expertise in order to help with the decision. These reorganizations appear all the more questionable as they go against the orientations proposed by the agency itself, which on the contrary calls for maintaining the unity of its missions in order to preserve scientific expertise independent of the Government and to strengthen its autonomy in the exercise of its missions. Consequently, he asks her if she intends to maintain the unity of Public Health France's missions and preserve in particular prevention campaigns aimed at the general public, inseparable from epidemiology and the place of Public Health France in the region. He also asks what guarantees it intends to provide to ensure the independence of scientific expertise, the coherence of the integrated model of the agency and coordination of public health actors, as well as the possibility of strengthening its status in order to guarantee its autonomy vis-à-vis the executive power.

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