Patrizia Carrieri

Patrizia Carrieri, French HDR in public health 
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)

Patrizia Carrieri is a senior public health researcher with over 30 years of experience in epidemiological and interventional research focused on hard-to-reach and underserved populations. Her work combines observational studies and community-led interventions to better understand and meet the needs of these groups, with a strong focus on infectious and liver diseases, including cancer prevention.

She began her career at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome) and later moved to France to work on the MANIF 2000 cohort of people who inject drugs and live with HIV. Her findings on the role of buprenorphine in improving ART adherence contributed to its inclusion in the WHO list of essential medicines.

Currently at then French national institute of health and medical research (INSERM), she leads a team working on health and social inequities in cancer prevention and care. She has also led key hepatitis prevention intervention studies, including the ANRS Methaville trial on primary care methadone initiation, and the ANRS-AERLI and ANRS-PRIDE studies on harm reduction and hepatitis prevention. These informed key changes in the 2016 French health law on health system modernization.

She co-leads the public health components of major cohorts like ANRS HEPATHER (HBV and HCV) and HEPAVIH (HIV/HCV co-infection), and projects such as FANTASIO (on treatment access inequities in people who use drugs using national insurance data). She was also principal investigator of studies designed to assess and reduce alcohol-related harms in people with alcohol use disorder.

She is a member of the EASL-Lancet Liver Commission, the EASL Salve consortium, and the EASL Policy, Public Health and Advocacy Committee, where she brings expertise in public health, social inequities, and stigma. In France, she sits on the Scientific Committee of Santé Publique France, the national public health agency, and serves on the doctoral committees of two public health schools at Sorbonne University and Aix-Marseille University.

She has authored over 500 scientific publications (ORCID: 0000-0002-6794-4837), secured approximately 25 grants as principal investigator since 2010, and mentored 12 PhD students, including three who now lead their own research teams.

Last Updated: July 2025