Martine AUDIBERT

Development and health have always been at the core of her research. Her early work took her to northern Cameroon, where she spent six years studying the economic, social, and health impacts of the construction of a reservoir and the development of irrigated rice farming. She then carried out research in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, focusing on the role of health in the efficiency of agricultural activities.

She subsequently broadened the notion of efficiency to the health sector by studying both the efficiency of health facilities (in China, Mongolia, Zimbabwe, and Algeria) and the efficiency of health policies (in Madagascar and Kenya). Her research also examines the impact of prepayment mechanisms on access to maternal healthcare (in Mauritania and Cameroon), with a view to achieving universal health coverage, as well as beneficiaries’ and healthcare workers’ perceptions of healthcare interventions.

She is the author or co-author of more than eighty academic articles and has co-edited two books in the field of health economics. She served as Deputy Director (2012–2016) and then Director (2017–2019) of the Doctoral School of Economics, Law, Politics, and Management at Université Clermont Auvergne. She also co-founded the Master’s programme in Health Economics and International Development at the UCA School of Economics, which she co-directed from 2002 to 2016.

She has additionally served as an alternate member of the AFD Board of Directors and as a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Madagascar and at Senghor University in Alexandria, where she taught at the Ouagadougou and Abidjan campuses.