Philippe Lazar

Philippe Lazar , born the April 21st 1936 with Paris, is a statistician French, high-civil servant and former Managing director of INSERM, currently Adviser-Master with the Court of Auditors. He was a very important actor of the policy of research in France in the years 1980-90.

Biography

Graduate of the Polytechnic school in 1956, Philippe Lazar directs himself towards research in statistics applied to the social sciences and more particularly to the Biostatistique and the epidemiology. He integrates the National institute of hygiene in 1960 before this one does not become the National institute of health and the medical research (INSERM) in 1964. He becomes research director of the INSERM then, like professor at the Statistical institute of the universities of Paris in 1964. He will be director of a unit INSERM on epidemiologic and statistical research on the environment and the health of 1977 to 1982, date on which he becomes Managing director of the INSERM (1982-1996). Following the Sitted main roads of Research initiated by Jean-Pierre Chevènement in 1982, he will be the project superintendent of the installation of the national Advisory committee of ethics (CCNE) in 1983. Replaced at the general position of director of the INSERM, Philippe Lazar will become then chairman of the board of the Research institute for the development (IRD ex- ORSTOM) of 1997 to 2001. It is since Adviser-Master in extraordinary service with the Court of Auditors.

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