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Publications08/09/2025Publication – Déconstruire les différences de sexe : Le sexe biologique et le genre à l’épreuve de la méthode scientifique (2024)
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Aujourd’hui, l’intelligence artificielle serait capable de distinguer un cerveau de femme de celui d’un homme. Pour certain·e·s, cela constituerait la preuve irréfutable de la pertinence indépassable de ces deux catégories figé...
- Publications08/09/2025
Le genre de la dépression: perspectives de recherches sociologiques (2023)
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La forte progression des symptômes dépressifs et anxieux en 2020 lors des confinements décrétés pour endiguer l’épidémie de Covid-19 [1] a placé en haut de l’agenda médiatique la question de la santé mentale de la population. Parmi le...
- Publications08/09/2025
Les patients dits « non urgents » aux urgences Priorisation, orientation et sélection au prisme des sciences sociales (2023)
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Emergency departments overcrowding is often attributed to inappropriate use by patients who ought to be treated in primary care. This article challenges this assertion by examining the articulation of medical and social definitions of non-...
- Publications08/09/2025
Avoiding overadjustment bias in social epidemiology through appropriate covariate selection: a primer (2022)
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Obtaining accurate estimates of the causal effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health is important for public health interventions. To do this, researchers must identify and adjust for all potential confounding variables, while a...
- Publications08/09/2025
Trends in social exposure to SARS-Cov-2 in France. Evidence from the national socio-epidemiological cohort-EPICOV (2022)
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Background
We aimed to study whether social patterns of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection changed in France throughout the year 2020, in light to the easing of social contact restrictions.
Methods
A population-based cohort of i
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- Publications08/09/2025
Use of health care services among people with Covid-19 symptoms in the first pandemic peak in France (2022)
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In France, the first pandemic peak fell disproportionately on the most disadvantaged, as they were overrepresented in contaminations and in developing severe forms of the virus. At that time, and especially during lockdown, the French
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- Publications08/09/2025
Measuring education in the context of health inequalities (2022)
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Socio-economic inequalities in a wide range of health outcomes are pervasive and enduring.1 Most often, the association between socio-economic indicators and health is inversely graded (commonly known as social gradients in health) so...
- Publications08/09/2025
Higher risk, higher protection: COVID-19 risk among immigrants in France—results from the population-based EpiCov survey (2022)
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Background
Immigrants and ethnic/racialized minorities have been identified as being at higher risk of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) infection, but few studies report on their exposures and prevention behaviours. This study aims t
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Publications08/09/2025Publication – Les politiques de l’ignorance – Les points aveugles des inégalités sociales de santé: L’exemple de l’épidémie de Covid-19 (2022)
Read more...Nathalie Bajos et Emilie Counil contributed to the redaction of 'Les politiques de l'ignorance' de Soraya Boudia et Emmanuel Henry.
Abstract:
La notion d’ignorance est au cœur de nombreux débats médiatiques et scientifiques. Du changement clim...
- Publications08/09/2025
Intersectionnalité et incorporation: Expliquer la genèse des inégalités sociales de santé (2021)
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Dans son article, Estelle Carde propose d’étudier en quoi le concept d’intersectionnalité peut contribuer à la recherche sur les inégalités sociales de santé, en particulier dans le contexte francophone où cette approche est enc...
- Publications03/09/2025
When lockdown policies amplify social inequalities in COVID-19 infections: Evidence from a cross-sectional population-based survey in France (2021)
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Background
Significant differences in COVID-19 incidence by gender, class and race/ethnicity are recorded in many countries in the world. Lockdown measures, shown to be effective in reducing the number of new cases, may not have been effe...
Jobs23/05/2025Postdoctoral researcher ‘Discrimination, Racism and Mental Health’
Read more...Deadline for Application: 27/06/2025
General Information
Workplace: 7 rue Guy Môquet 94801 Villejuif
Type of contract: Researcher in FTC 21 months – full time
Expected date of employment: September 2025
Salary: Contract employees: 2,866.90 gr...