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Research Engineer IRD

pierre.traissac@ird.fr
+33.4.67.41.63.61

U.M.R 204 Nutripass
911 avenue d'Agropolis
B.P. 64501
34394 Montpellier cedex 5

Specialization

• Nutrition Transition (especially in North Africa, Tunisia).

• Quantitative Methods : epidemiology, biostatistics.

• Overweight, obésity and associated chronic diseases.

• Social determinants : gender, socio-economic factors.

Scientific and administrative Responsabilities

• Scientific responsible for the IRD of the search agreement with the INNTA (Tunisian National Institute of Nutrition) in tandem with Pr. Jalila El Ati of the INNTA (2012-2018).

• Responsible of the UE «  Methods of investigation in nutrition and food in the South Â», M2 of the Master « International Nutrition » of the University of Montpellier. 

Courses 

• Quantitative methods in epidemiology in the UE « Methods of investigation in nutrition and food in the South Â», M2 of the Master « International Nutrition » of the University of Montpellier. 

• Co-supervision of PhD University El Manar, Tunis.

• Course of nutritional Epidemiology,  University Senghor, Alexandria, Egypt (1994-2012).

International Activities 

• Collaboration with the INNTA, Research Laboratory  SURVEN (Nutritional Surveillance and Epidemiology in Tunisia) : 30 months in Tunisia since 2007, 3 in 2016.  

• Project MEDINA«Sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean in the service of nutrition and health» 2013-2017.

• Project Obe-Maghreb Â«Understanding the nutrition transition in North America to contribute to the prevention of obesity and noncommunicable diseases associated», 2007-2012.

Reference Publications

Traissac P, El Ati J, Gartner A, Ben Gharbia H, Delpeuch F: Gender inequalities in excess adiposity and anaemia combine in a large double burden of malnutrition gap detrimental to women in an urban area in North Africa. Public Health Nutrition 2016:1-10 [Epub 04/6/2016] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980016000689].

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (Delpeuch F, Martin-Prével Y & Traissac P are members): Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants. The Lancet 2016, 387(10026):1377-1396 [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30054-X].

Traissac P, Pradeilles R, El Ati J, Aounallah-Skhiri  H, Eymard-Duvernay S, Gartner A, Béji C, Bougatef S, Martin-Prével Y, Kolsteren P, Delpeuch F, Ben Romdhane H, Maire B: Abdominal vs. overall obesity among women in a nutrition transition context: geographic and socio-economic patterns of abdominal-only obesity in Tunisia. Population Health Metrics 2015, 13(1) [Epub 01/24/2015] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-015-0035-3].

Gartner A, El Ati J, Traissac P, Bour A, Berger J, Landais E, El Hsaini H, Ben Rayana C, Delpeuch F: A Double Burden of Overall or Central Adiposity and Anemia or Iron Deficiency Is Prevalent but with Little Socioeconomic Patterning among Moroccan and Tunisian Urban Women. J Nutr 2014, 144(1):87-97 [Epub 2013/11/08] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3945/jn.113.178285].

Atek M, Traissac P, El Ati J, Laid Y, Aounallah-Skhiri H, Eymard-Duvernay S, Mezimeche N, Bougatef S, Beji C, Boutekdjiret L, Martin-Prével Y, Lebcir H, Gartner A, Kolsteren P, Delpeuch F, Romdhane HB, Maire B: Obesity and Association with Area of Residence, Gender and Socio-Economic Factors in Algerian and Tunisian Adults. PLoS One 2013, 8(10):e75640 [Epub 2013/10/12] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075640].

Traissac P, Martin-Prével Y: Alternatives to principal components analysis to derive asset-based indices to measure socio-economic position in low- and middle-income countries: the case for multiple correspondence analysis. Int J Epidemiol 2012, 41(4):1207-1208 [Epub 2012/08/31] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys122].

El Ati J, Traissac P, Delpeuch F, Aounallah-Skhiri H, Beji C, Eymard-Duvernay S, Bougatef S, Kolsteren P, Maire B, Ben Romdhane H: Gender obesity inequities are huge but differ greatly according to environment and socio-economics in a north african setting: a national cross-sectional study in Tunisia. PLoS ONE 2012, 7(10):e48153 [Epub 2012/11/03] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048153].

Aounallah-Skhiri H, Traissac P, El Ati J, Eymard-Duvernay S, Landais E, Achour N, Delpeuch F, Ben Romdhane H, Maire B: Nutrition transition among adolescents of a south-Mediterranean country: dietary patterns, association with socioeconomic factors, overweight and blood pressure. A cross-sectional study in Tunisia. Nutr J 2011, 10(1):38 [Epub 2011/04/26] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-10-38].

 Tessier S, Traissac P, Bricas N, Maire B, Eymard-Duvernay S, El Ati J, Delpeuch F: Food shopping transition: socio-economic characteristics and motivations associated with use of supermarkets in a North African urban environment. Public Health Nutrition 2010, 13(9):1410-1418 [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980010000601].

Beltaifa L, Traissac P, El Ati J, Lefevre P, Romdhane HB, Delpeuch F: Prevalence of obesity and associated socioeconomic factors among Tunisian women from different living environments. Obes Rev 2009, 10(2):145-153 [Epub 2008/11/29] [doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00543.x].

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