Daniel Benamouzig

Daniel Benamouzig is a sociologist and Research Director at the CNRS’s Center for the Sociology of Organizations. He holds the Health Chair at Sciences Po and serves as Chair of the
Scientific Council of the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique. He has served on numerous expert panels in the field of public health and has worked with many health agencies (Haute Autorité de Santé, ANSES, Santé Publique France, Institut National du Cancer, etc.). During the COVID-19 pandemic, he advised the President of the Republic and the government as a member of the COVID-19 Scientific Council (2020–2022).

Daniel Benamouzig’s work focuses on public health policies and the organization of health care. He is particularly interested in the role of institutions, health care actors, and ideas especially economic reasoning. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, including La santé au miroir de l’Economie (PUF, 2005), Économie et sociologie (with François Cusin, PUF, 2005) and, more recently, co-authored with Joan Cortinas-Muños, Lobbies on the Menu: The Agri-Food Industry Against Public Health (Raisons d’agir, 2022) and Lobbies at the Bar: The Alcohol Industry Against Health (Raisons d’agir, 2025).

Daniel Benamouzig holds the Sciences Po Chair in Health  https://www.sciencespo.fr/chaire-sante/

EDUCATION

• DEA in Social Sciences - “Policies to Combat Poverty in France, 1974–1984” (supervised by Raymond Boudon), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (1993)
• MASTER’S DEGREE - Master’s in Philosophy, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (1994)
• Ph.D. – Doctoral dissertation in sociology, “The Rise and Development of the Health Economy: A Cognitive Sociology Study” (advisored by Raymond Boudon). Summa cum laude with honors from the faculty, Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 (2000)

• CARTINUT : cartographie des influences en nutrition santé
• COLONUT : COntroverse sur les LOgos NUTritionnels

• Foundations of sociology (avec Emanuele Ferragina) – École de la recherche, Sciences Po
• Politiques et systèmes de santé – Ecole d’affaires publiques, Sciences Po
• Sciences et sociétés – Collège de Sciences Po

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Chair of the Scientific Council of the École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (since 2021)
• Member of the government’s COVID-19 Scientific Council (March 2020–July 2022)
• Member of the Ethics Committee of the Pasteur Institute (since 2026)
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics (IRDES)
• Member of the National Food Council (2019–2024)
• Member of the National Health Conference (2014–2018)
• Chair of the Steering and Monitoring Committee (COS) dedicated to Transverse Agenesis of the Upper Limbs (ATMS, “babies without arms,” 2019–2020).
• Co-Director of the AVIESAN Alliance’s Multi-Agency Thematic Institute for Public Health, responsible for coordinating research in the life and health sciences (2012–2018)

• Benamouzig, D., Cortinas-Munoz, J. Des lobbys au menu, l’industrie agroalimentaire contre la santé publique, Raisons d’agir, 2022 (168p.)
• Benamouzig, D., Cortinas-Munoz, Des lobbys au comptoir, l’industrie de l’alcool contre la santé publique, Raisons d’agir, 2025.
• Bellivier, F., Benamouzig, D., Krikorian, G. Qui a droit à la médecine ? Presses de Sciences Po, 2025 (72p.)
• Benamouzig, D. Coordination du numéro thématique « Sociologies de la Santé », L’Année sociologique, Vol.73, n°2, sept 2023 (213p.)
• Benamouzig, D. Boubal, C. (2022) « Réguler avec modération : le cas des recommandations nutritionnelles », Sociologie, Vol. 13, n°2, pp. 125-141.

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