Jocelyn Raude

Social psychology – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique

Jocelyn Raude is a full professor of health psychology at the EHESP School of Public Health (Rennes) and a research associate in the Health Services and Management Research team (Rennes University, CNRS, INSERM). Following a doctoral thesis defended in 2006 at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) and devoted to protective behavior during the “mad cow” crisis in France, he was led to work in an interdisciplinary perspective on the prevention of emerging infectious diseases in tropical environments as part of a postdoctoral stay at the London School of Economics (2008) and then as a research associate in the Health and Society Department of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (2016-2018). His main research focuses on how population respond to health threats and epidemics, i.e. how these phenomena influence individual and collective behaviors that affect population health (hygiene, social interactions, vaccination). For the past ten years, he has been working in particular on the processes of social and cognitive adaptation to the risks and uncertainties associated with emerging infectious diseases, as well as on intervention strategies to promote the adoption of preventive behaviors. He is currently co-author of around 100 scientific articles published in leading international journals, and in 2018 received the Red Cross Foundation’s Special Research Award for his body of work on emerging infectious diseases.