IMPULSE team
Who are we?
The IMPULSE research team, coordinated by Marie Viprey, is composed of about ten members, including epidemiologists, statisticians, and data analysts. All team members have expertise in epidemiology of health products and statistical methodology for the analysis of medical-administrative data.
The IMPULSE team ("Impact of new healthcare organizations, public policies, and communications on the use of health products") was awarded a grant by EPI-PHARE (a Scientific interest group formed by ANSM and CNAM) to fund a "Future Team" in pharmaco-epidemiology for 4 years. The team has been active since January 2022 as part of the U1290 RESHAPE (RESearch on HealthcAre PErformance) public health research unit, and is under the supervision of INSERM and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, in partnership with the Health Data Service of the Hospices Civils de Lyon.
Their work aims to study the impact of the following three types of actions on the real-world use of health products: decisions/recommendations for care from health authorities or scholarly societies; communication about health products from authorities, health professionals, manufacturers, or patients relayed by the media; and the implementation of new healthcare organizations.
This team acts as a strategic partner of EPI-PHARE (ANSM-CNAM) to provide health authorities with cross-disciplinary expertise in the epidemiology of health products (drugs, biological products, medical devices, and vaccines reimbursed by health insurance), by studying the impact of varied actions, institutional or otherwise, on the use of health products, regardless of the clinical theme, and considering different levels of analysis (patient, health professional, and population). The studies are conducted using SNDS data to address priority public health issues identified in agreement with EPI-PHARE.
Team members
Epidemiologists
Marie Viprey
Marie Viprey is a pharmacist with a PhD in epidemiology and public health. She is a professor of public health at the Lyon Est Faculty of Medicine, manager of the Health Data Department at the Hospices Civils de Lyon and manager of the 'Data Warehouses' platform at the UCBL/INSERM U1290 RESHAPE public health laboratory. She has developed expertise in analysing the large databases available, in particular the SNDS, to study the use of healthcare products, adherence to medication and the care pathway, diagnostic and therapeutic management, and to identify the individual and organisational determinants of professional-patient interactions.
Anaïs Havet
Anaïs Havet is a pharmacist, with a PhD in epidemiology and public health. After more than 2 years of experience within a consulting firm in managing studies conducted using the national SNDS databases, she joined the IMPULSE team as a pharmaco-epidemiologist.
Data analysts
Violaine Fernandez
Violaine Fernandez is a data analyst within the health data department of Hospices Civils de Lyon. She primarily works on data extraction from the national databases of SNDS for research studies on the epidemiology of health products.
Aurelie Moskal
Aurélie Moskal is a Research Engineer. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health (2009) and a master's degree in Biostatistics. After 12 years of experience in cancer epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), she joined the IMPULSE team as a data analyst, utilizing the databases of the National Health System (SNDS) for various pharmaco-epidemiology research projects.
Stéphanie Polazzi
Stéphanie Polazzi is a data analyst within the health data department of the Hospices Civils de Lyon.
Aubane L'Hospital
Aubane L'Hospital has been a data analyst within the health data department of the Hospices Civils de Lyon since 2021 and joined the IMPULSE team in 2023. She primarily works on data extraction from the national databases of the SNDS for various pharmaco-epidemiology research projects.
Statisticians
Cécile Payet
Cécile Payet is a statistician in the health data department of the Hospices Civils de Lyon and holds a doctorate in Epidemiology (2020). She mainly works on the analysis of large local (HCL) and national (PMSI and SNDS) databases for health services research studies.
Annaëlle Testud
Annaëlle Testud is a biostatistician within the IMPULSE team. She primarily works on SNDS data. She holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and Modeling.
Hugo Marthinet
Hugo Marthinet is a biostatistician in the IMPULSE team. He works mainly on SNDS data. Hugo holds a Master's degree in statistics and data science.
PhD students
Julie Rigoureau
Julie Rigoureau holds a Master's degree in Care Pathways Coordination from the Lille Faculty of Health Engineering and Management. She spent three years working with institutions before joining the IMPULSE team.
Julie Rigoureau is conducting a thesis on the methodology and feasibility of involving patients in pharmaco-epidemiological studies using databases, under the supervision of Dr Marie Viprey.
Elia Eid
Elia Eid is a Clinical Pharmacist with a Masters in Public Health from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and a PhD student in epidemiology and public health.
She is currently working on a thesis on the study of the use of healthcare products based on medico-administrative databases, in patients suffering from chronic diseases, in particular mucoviscidosis, with a methodological component involving international collaboration. The thesis is under the supervision of Pr Isabelle DURIEU, Dr Quitterie REYNAUD and Dr Marie VIPREY.
Post-doctorant
François Bettega
François Bettega is a pharmacist with a PhD in statistics. He works mainly on SNDS data. François Bettega joined the impulse team as a post-doctoral student in epidemiology.