Grégoire Rey is a statistician and epidemiologist at Inserm. He initially focused on studying medical causes of death, particularly the links between mortality and summer temperatures, socio-economic status, and quality of care. As director of CépiDc (the French Centre for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death) from 2013 to 2022, he promoted the development of methods in biostatistics to improve data processing, artificial intelligence to speed up data production, and documentation and open data practices to enhance data reuse. He now leads the national research infrastructure France Cohortes.
France Cohortes is a national infrastructure dedicated to supporting public health cohort research. Backed by France’s Investment for the Future Program and led by Inserm and major academic partners, it provides a secure, sovereign platform for data collection, processing, and reuse. It also offers expert guidance on regulatory, technical, and communication aspects. France Cohortes promotes open science and FAIR data principles to enhance disease prevention and healthcare through long-term data valorization.
