La France se dote d’une agence nationale de santé publique. Illustrations de ses principales missions et enjeux

In 2016, France has established a national public health agency: “Santé publique France”. Its missions are presented: epidemic intelligence, alert, surveillance, prevention and health promotion and response in the event of exceptional health situations. Four major challenges for this new agency are presented: the challenge of the continuum between its different public health functions in order to ensure the coherence of the merger of three public agencies ; The challenge of managing large databases; The challenge to give a new impetus to prevention — health promotion and finally the challenge of the presence of the Agency in all the metropolitan and overseas territories.