PARSEC (Paris Recherche Santé Environment Climat, or Paris Research on Health, Environment and Climate) is a new research structure only dedicated to generating knowledge at the junction between climate change and health, supported by Inserm (the Institute of Health and medical research) and Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL), two leading institutions in research and training. The project implies collaborations with scientists in the field of climatology/geosciences, air pollution modelling, economics.

Climate change and health: a health impact assessment considering various adaptation strategies at the urban scale.
The research project consists in the assessment of urban policy scenarios aiming to reduce the health impact of air pollution and temperature (health impact assessment approach) in the context of climate change. Specifically, the health benefits of various scenarios will be assessed and compared. This study will be led at the scale of the Grenoble urban area.