Since 2006, ANSES has coordinated the National Environment-Health-Work Research Program (PNR EST), which funds research on the risks to human health related to the environment, including the working environment, and to ecosystems . Around thirty projects are thus financed each year, for a period of two or three years. These projects make it possible to advance research and knowledge on key issues, taking into account the emergence of new risks linked to the evolution of our environment, changes in consumption or work patterns, the arrival of new infectious diseases or the development of new technologies.
Launch of calls for projects 2022
The two calls for projects of the PNR EST 2022 are open from November 15 until January 6, 2022.
The first call, with a generalist vocation, aims to fund research on priority issues in health-environment and health-work. These questions echo the orientations of public policies (environmental health plans, occupational health, cancer). Among the issues concerned: the effects of nanomaterials, chemical agents including plant protection products, with particular emphasis on endocrine disruptors, light pollution or climate change; the factors favoring cancers or the exposure of workers to pathogenic agents.
Within the framework of this general appeal, an additional budget is foreseen this year to finance projects relating to the effect of air quality on health. ANSES is also awaiting proposals relating to the study of the exposomethat is to say all the exposures affecting the health of individuals during their lifetime.
The second call for projects, dedicated to the theme ” Radiofrequencies and health aims to strengthen knowledge on this subject and expand the scientific community interested in it. This call for projects focuses on four issues: the mechanisms of action of radiofrequencies at the cellular level, their possible physiological or health effects, electromagnetic hypersensitivity and the characterization of uses and exposure to radiofrequencies in real situations.
Financing of the PNR EST
The projects selected under the PNR EST are funded by ANSES from budgets delegated by the ministries responsible for the environment, agriculture and labour, and involve several co-financiers: the Ecological Transition Agency (ADEME), the multi-organization thematic cancer institute (Itmo Cancer) of the Aviesan alliance through the ten-year strategy for the fight against cancer. Find out more about the National Environment-Health-Work Research Program.