Jean-Marie Robine
Research Director, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research
Chair, Department of Biostatistics, University of Montpellier 1
Dr. Jean-Marie Robine is a Research Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research and head of the Health and Demography team at the Department of Biostatistics, University of Montpellier 1, France. He attempts to measure the impact that the continuation of increases in life expectancy may have on the health status of the population. In particular, he works on the measure of disability and on the evolution of the health status of populations. He also studies human longevity, with the aim of understanding the relations between health and longevity.
Since its creation in 1989, he has been the coordinator of the International Network on Health Expectancy (REVES), which brings together more than 150 researchers from more than 100 research institutes or universities in over 30 countries worldwide. He is the project leader of the European Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit (EHEMU), supported by the European Union. He is also responsible for the development of the International Database on Longevity (IDL) in association with the main research demographic centres. In the field of the genetic of longevity, he was one of the principal investigators of the European challenge for Healthy Ageing project (ECHA, Fifth European Research Framework, 2001-2004) and he is one of the newly Genetic of Healthy Ageing project (GEHA, Sixth European Research Framework, 2004-2009).
He is the chair of the Committee on Longevity and Health of the International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population (IUSSP) and co-chair of the Steering Committee of the World Ageing Survey (WAS) prepared by the International Association of Gerontology (IAG).
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