Throughout my career, I have constantly worked to provide evidence-based support for healthcare decisions and policies, and helping set up the National Health Observatory is a natural step in this direction.
A specialist in pediatrics with a degree from UCLouvain (Belgium), Françoise Berthet devoted the early years of her medical and scientific career to congenital immune deficiencies and auto-immune and auto-inflammatory diseases in children, in Paris and Zurich. As part of her hospital practice in Luxembourg, she realized the importance of coordinating care in order to better meet patients’ needs. From 2001 to 2006, she helped develop interdisciplinary care in pediatrics, and was involved in implementing various ways of organizing hospital care (triage in emergencies, door beds, day hospitalization, for example). She then completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a focus on healthcare management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, before joining the Health Department in 2009, where she worked on the planning and organization of the curative, inpatient and outpatient care sector, as well as the evaluation of healthcare quality and performance, before taking up the position of Deputy Director on January 1, 2019. In her role, Françoise Berthet is keen to adopt the most evidence-based approach possible to optimize the management of day-to-day activities, and to plan actions that make sense and have a lasting impact. Since September 1, 2022, Françoise Berthet has been President of the Observatory.
