« TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO THE BEST HEALTH CARE FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER IN THE WORLD »

World-renowned medical expertise and an extensive network: the FAM builds relationships of trust with the Academies of Medicine, Science and Technology and universities in many countries.

A recognized public utility foundation, the FAM’s mission is to federate skills and promote France’s image in the world through healthcare.

It also aims to be a place for sharing knowledge within the French Academy of Medicine through debates on the three major health topics it covers: food, ageing and environment. It carries out field actions to train doctors, solidarity actions and helps associations and researchers through calls for projects.

Its missions revolve around 4 pillars:

 

1. Share knowledge
2. Access to healthcare
3. Raise awareness
4. Supporting and developing sheltered foundations in the health sector

 

PRESIDENT MESSAGE, OLIVIER BOHUON

Olivier BohuonTo promote access to the best health care for the greatest number of people in the world, such is the mission that the Foundation of the French Academy of Medicine has set itself, with the support of the French Academy of Medicine whose name it bears.

On the strength of the expertise it can offer and its ability to unite public and private partners, such as specialists and the general public, around concrete projects, the Foundation of the French Academy of Medicine participates, through health, in promoting the image of France in the world.

The Foundation has four areas of action: sharing knowledge, access to healthcare, raising awareness and sheltering other foundations. With the support of its patrons, it organizes thematic debates and forums. It sets up calls for projects and training courses and assists associations in their development.

Because we are convinced that the major health issues we address can only be dealt with everyone, we create and maintain solid and lasting relationships with all our partners.

 

ITS MISSIONS

SHARE KNOWLEDGE

The Foundation intends to share the best medical knowledge for the greatest number of people in France and abroad. It organises debates and conferences on major health and social issues based on 4 main themes: environment, ageing, food and innovation. They are intended to be the starting point (or continuity) for the development of medical cooperation and exchanges with civil society and feed its advocacy work on these major topics. In the field, it trains more than 600 health professionals in helicopter emergency medicine in emerging countries in partnership with the Airbus Foundation.

ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE

The Foundation proposes to support associative initiatives in the field or to promote scientific projects by organising calls for associative projects, calls for research grants and by giving its high patronage. The aim is to enhance the value of these actions thanks to this label by making them benefit from the aura of the Foundation and the French Academy of Medicine. Some concrete projects resulting from our forums are developed by the FAM. This is the case, for example, of a pilot project to detect hearing problems in young children through a South African mobile application: hearscreen.

RAISE AWARENESS

The FAM has chosen to address 4 major global health and social issues at the national level: environment, ageing, food and innovation. It has initiated cycles of debates, monthly meetings for the general public at the French  Academy of Medicine to make concrete proposals and recommendations. Academics, experts, doctors, politicians and sociologists thus exchange views with associations, start-ups and companies. On the sporting level, the Foundation is also present at the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc through the solidarity bibs. This awareness-raising also takes place through a panel of the FAM’s communication vectors.

SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING SHELTERED

FOUNDATIONS

On June 5, 2018, the FAM became a Shelter Foundation. Since then, the FAM has been sheltering, advising and supporting foundations on a daily basis, which include the theme of “health and society”, in order to develop their actions in the fields of prevention, transplantation and surgery.

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