Bruno Falissard MD, PhD

Bruno Falissard is a after his initial training in Mathematics and Basic Physics (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris), Bruno Falissard engaged in medical studies and specialized in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1991. His PhD was in biostatistics and his post in psychometrics and exploratory multimensional methods. He was assistant professor in psychiatry and child psychiatry in 1996-1997, associate professor in public health in 1997-2002 and full professor in public health since 2002.
He is at the head of the Master of Public Health of South-Paris University (600 students) and at the head of the "Center for Epidemiology and Population Health" (400 members). He is a co-author of about 400 papers and author of 4 books. He has a clinical activity in child and adolescent psychiatry. His personal areas of research are about the methodology and epistemology of mental health research. From 2015 he is the president of IACAPAP (International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions) and member of the French Academy of Medicine.