Our team
CITÉS is an emerging research team within the Research Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health (Irset) in Rennes. Our team is dedicated to environmental health in the context of climate change, with a particular focus on environmental justice issues. Our main objective is to produce knowledge that enables a better understanding and mitigation of the health impacts of climate change, taking into account social and territorial health inequalities.
The team draws on a community-based approach to health, founded on the active participation of non-traditional research stakeholders (local authorities, public agencies, associations, field professionals, and residents) at the local, regional, and national levels. This approach aims to co-develop knowledge and solutions tailored to specific regions, closely aligned with the needs of populations and public decision-makers.
CITÉS‘ work is organized around several complementary themes:
- etiological research on climate-sensitive risk factors (heat, air pollution, extreme weather events, etc.);
- the development and evaluation of climate change adaptation measures;
- analysis of the health impacts of public policies and urban development;
- methodological developments in environmental epidemiology and statistics.
CITÉS takes an interdisciplinary approach to the links between climate change, territories, and health inequalities, drawing on public health, epidemiology, statistics, environmental sciences, urban planning, behavioral sciences, and health psychology. The team’s ambition is to produce robust, useful, and transferable knowledge on climate-health risks, to evaluate the effectiveness of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies and strategies, to support public decision-makers, and to strengthen knowledge transfer at the science-policy-society interface, in order to contribute to the promotion of healthier, fairer, and more resilient environments.
Team members
Tarik Benmarhnia Co-leader of the Cités team | Epidemiologist, Professor at UCSD and EHESP Climate change, urban health, causal inference methods, environmental justice, policy evaluation Show email address
Noémie Letellier Co-leader of the Cités team | Epidemiologist, Inserm Research Fellow 
Alan Le Calloch PhD student Behavioral change, Climate change, sleep, heat, social health inequalities Show email address
Anaïs Teyton Epidemiologist, Postdoctoral Researcher Climate change, exposure measurement, advanced epidemiological methods, remote sensing, environmental justice Show email address
Anne Roué-Le-Gall EHESP research professor 
Astrid Bacle Pharmacist Clinical pharmacy, organ transplantation, health literacy, patient education, treatment adherence Show email address
Camille Boissiere Pharmacist, teacher, researcher, PhD student Pharmacoepidemiology, Nephrology, Transplantation, Clinical Pharmacy Show email address
Carolina Temporão Postdoctoral researcher Climate change, Sleep quality, Mental health, Air pollution, Temperature Show email address
Cécile Vigneau Nephrologist, University Professor, Hospital Practitioner Care pathways, chronic kidney disease, in utero exposure, health inequalities, literacy Show email address
Dorcas Ebedi Nding PhD student Compound climate events, Environmental health, Child health, Sub-Saharan Africa, Climate epidemiology Show email address
Guillaume Chevance Chaire of Global Health, Behavioral sciences Active mobility, mental health, walking, cycling Show email address
Ianis Delpla EHESP research professor 
Jimmy Camboulives PhD student Public health, behavioral change, physical activity sciences, active mobility Show email address
Juliette Piveteau Epidemiologist, PhD student Chronic kidney disease, kidney transplant, care pathway, heat wave Show email address
Louis Hognon Public health research engineer Climate change, heat, health, adaptation Show email address
Marie-Florence Thomas EHESP research professor 
Mathilde Le Vu Epidemiologist, Postdoctoral researcher Climate change, infectious diseases, women's health, social health inequalities Show email address
Paquito Bernard Professor Chair in Behavioral Sciences Sleep, heat, sports, mental health, air quality Show email address
Pauline Caille Associate Professor in Health Psychology, Behavioral Sciences Behavior Change Interventions, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, Active Transportation, Psychosocial and Environmental Determinants of Health, Climate Change Show email address
Pauline Rebouillat Epidemiologist, Postdoctoral Researcher Urban environment, biodiversity, cardiometabolic diseases, One Health, temperature Show email address
Pierre Scala PhD student Causal inference, Environmental epidemiology, Quasi-experimental method, Heat wave Show email address
Quentin Montiege Geographer, Research Engineer Urban planning and development, Health and environment, Climate change, One Health, Systemic approaches Show email address
Suganthi Jaganathan Epidemiologist, Postdoctoral Researcher Climate change, air pollution, heat, health Show email address
Valérie Garès Professor Chair in Statistics Survival data analysis, Multi-source data integration, Functional data, Statistical learning, Application in healthcare Show email address
Virginie Migeot University Professor, Hospital Practitioner Our research themes
- Healthy living environments in the context of climate change
- In connection with land use and urban planning choices
- Engagement with public and private stakeholders
- Behavior change interventions to improve health
- Focus on chronic diseases, mental health, and health behaviors
- Adaptation and co-benefits of mitigation measures
- Healthcare pathways and vulnerability to heat waves and air pollution
- Co-development of clinical recommendations
- Health literacy
- Adaptation of heterogeneous domains
- Methods in causal inference
- Satellite imagery for expology
- Climate Modeling
- Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)