CEPEL

Fanny DEBIL

Career history

  • PhD student in political science, "Environmental Health Planning," University of Montpellier, co-supervised by William Genieys (CEPEL, UMR 5112) and Géraldine Pflieger (UNIGE, Geneva).

Thesis project

This thesis focuses on the long trajectory of national planning in environmental health since the 1980s. It suggests that the visible and political formalization of environmental health in France stems from a gradual shift away from historical environmental health entrepreneurs, such as sanitary engineers, towards new generations of health and environmental actors with multiple resources at their disposal within the state apparatus. However, the sustainability of this formalization depends essentially on ecological actors, i.e., a transfer of responsibility for the problem, which means a transfer of regulatory methods but also of uncertainties.

Degrees

  • 2012: Master's Degree in Research – Bilingual, Comparative Politics and Public Policy Analysis, with honors, Montpellier 1 University.
  • 2010, Professional Master's Degree, Expertise in Local Public Action, with honors, Institute of Political Studies, Rennes.
  • 2005-2010: Multidisciplinary program, specializing in sociology and political science, grade: Assez Bien (Fairly Good), Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Rennes.
  • 2005: High school diploma in literature, with honors, Lycée Notre-Dame du Mur, Morlaix.

Administrative responsibilities, research, and promotion

  • "Greening the black box. A programmatic coalition for (climate) change in the World Health Organization," 1st International Conference on Public Policy, session "Actor-centered approaches to policy change: raising methodological and theoretical issues," Grenoble, June 26-28, 2013.
  • "Cattle in Marie-Galante," symposium on "Human/Animal Relations in the Antilles," Fort-de-France, Martinique, May 13, 2011.

Interactions with the environment

  • January 16, 2012 – April 15, 2012: Diagnosis: Agriculture, health, and climate change. International expertise in the face of cross-sectoral challenges, World Health Organization, Geneva.
  • February 14, 2010 – August 15, 2010: Socio-anthropological study: Perceptions of the risks posed by the Senegalese tick and its chemical control by cattle owners on the island of Marie-Galante. Recommendations for a public action plan, CIRAD UMR 15/UMR CIRAD-INRA 1309 "Control of exotic and emerging animal diseases," Guadeloupe.

Most representative article

  • "The emergence of climate issues at the WHO. From marginal adjustment to discreet change," Government and Public Action, Presses de Sciences Po, 2(1), pp. 118-138.