Santé publique France is France’s national public health agency. A public institution of the State under the authority of the Minister of Health, formed through the merger of several public institutions and established by Ordinance 2016-246 of April 15, 2016, the agency works to promote public health. As a scientific, expert, and public health safety agency, its missions include:

1. Epidemiological observation and surveillance of the health status of the population; 
2. Monitoring health risks threatening the population;
3. Promoting health and reducing health risks;
4. Developing prevention and health education;
5. Preparation for and response to health threats, alerts, and crises;
6. Issuing public health alerts.

The agency is organized into 12 departments—some scientific, some cross-functional, and some providing operational support.

The agency’s strategic priorities and work program, established by its Board
of Directors, are organized into three areas: Strengthening the capacity for anticipation and rapid response to health threats; Measuring and assessing the extent of diseases and risk factors to guide their prevention and control; Strengthening the health impact of all public policies, as well as health prevention and promotion.

Division of Infectious Diseases - HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B/C, and STIs Unit (VHIT)

Internship Objectives 

• To contribute to the understanding of the epidemiological dynamics of HIV among MSM born in France through a mathematical modeling approach

Internship Activities

• Conduct a literature review of mathematical models of HIV transmission in high-income countries
• Select a modeling approach suited to the epidemiological situation in France
• Implement a subset of this model in R (or another suitable programming language) focused on MSM born in France, using appropriate parameters
• Calibrate the main transmission parameters using HIV surveillance data from France

Internship Objective

• The objective of the internship is to identify and apply a mathematical model to describe the dynamics of the HIV epidemic among MSM born in France