Missions

The project “Sustaining the Antibiotic Infrastructure: Tools, Actors, Controversies” (STATIC) is coordinated by Henri Boullier (sociologist, CNRS/IRISSO) in collaboration with teams from Cermes3 and the Institut Français de Pondichéry. Antibiotic resistance represents a major threat to public health, but one that still receives very little attention, and remains little studied by the social sciences. Drawing on interdisciplinary teams and collaborations (computational approaches, microbiology, clinical medicine, etc.), the STATIC project focuses not only on individual factors, but above all on the role that collective structures (public policies, markets, institutions, organizations, professions, etc.) could play in maintaining dependence on antibiotics. The project follows a “One Health” approach, in other words, it pays simultaneous attention to human health, animal health and environmental issues.

Activités

The person to be recruited will set up a research program to address the problem of resistant bacteria management in healthcare facilities, as part of a two-fold study. First, working with a hospital team, he/she will help design and conduct a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the circulation of pathogenic bacteria in an exposed unit. This will entail a quantitative analysis of the trajectories of patients treated in the unit, as well as interviews and observations on site. Second, with colleagues in the social sciences, he/she will exploit existing databases on antibiotic prescription and antibiotic resistance, including the French Panel for the observation of medical practices and conditions of practice, and reimbursement data from the French Assurance Maladie. Finally, the candidate will be involved in the dissemination of research results and the organization of training modules for a medical audience, in particular in the form of MOOCs, presentations at medical conferences and other relevant formats.

Compétences

The candidate will have a PhD in health sociology and extensive experience in mixed methods. He/she will be proficient in quantitative analysis tools, in particular R and Stata, applied to data sets with specific characteristics (medico-administrative patient data, panel data, Health Insurance reimbursement database), taking into account the technical and legal constraints linked to their exploitation. For the analysis of patient files, proficiency in sequence analysis techniques is required. Finally, a good knowledge of infectious disease issues, and antibiotic resistance in particular, would be an asset.

Contexte de travail

The candidate will work in collaboration with the STATIC project teams coordinated by Henri Boullier, Research Fellow in Sociology (CNRS/IRISSO). He/she will be based at the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (UMR 7170 CNRS - Université Paris-Dauphine PSL - INRAE), where he/she will benefit from workspace and access to the scientific environment and collective infrastructures of Université Paris-Dauphine.