With regard to the major health issues covered by the Sustainable Development Goals, the aim of IRD’s ‘Health and Societies’ department is to contribute to efforts to improve the health of populations in the Global South.
The work done combines two complementary aspects of research: improving knowledge and conducting research projects on the one hand, and intervention or operational research with a direct impact on populations and support for control programmes on the other.
The focus is on a multidisciplinary approach, combining biomedical sciences with human and social sciences.