Laure Pitti

Laure Pitti is a professor of sociology at Sorbonne Paris-Nord University, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Social Issues (Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux, or IRIS; joint research unit UMR CNRS 8156 – U997) and an associate researcher at the Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Économie de la Santé, or IRDES). Her research focuses on sociospatial health inequalities, the transformation of social medicine in France since the 1960s, and contemporary changes in health policies at local level, based on studies of general medical practice, primary care teams, and community health centers in working-class areas.

Together with Cécile Fournier, a sociologist and research director at IRDES, she is currently coordinating a cross-disciplinary research program, Dynatras, on alternative dynamics in primary care work (2025–2028), funded by the French Institute for Public Health Research (Institut de Recherche en Santé Publique, or IRSP) and centered on experiments in participatory coordinated-care structures (in French: structures d’exercice coordonné participatives, abbreviated SECPa) – multi-professional health centers in disadvantaged neighborhoods (quartiers prioritaires de la politique de la ville, i.e. national urban-policy priority neighborhoods).