Malardé Institute
The Institut Louis-Malardé (ILM) is a medical research institution in Papeete, Tahiti, focused on public health research and epidemiological monitoring in French Polynesia. It was part of the international network of Pasteur Institutes. History The institute was established in 1948 as the Medical Research Institute of Oceania. Initial funding was provided by American sailor William Robinson (sailor), William Albert Robinson. The foundation stone for the institute was laid on 24 July 1948, and the institute formally opened on 26 September 1949. The ILM's research initially focused on Lymphatic filariasis. In its first ten years it reduced the rate of the disease from 8% to 1.2%, and the rate of infestation of the mosquitoes which serve as its vectors from 7.4% to 0.67%. In 1954 it expanded its research into other areas. In 1960 it began work on Tuberculosis. It later worked on Ciguatera fish poisoning leprosy, Zika virus, and Dengue fever. The ILM is one of the three main players i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Papeete
Papeete (Tahitian language, Tahitian: ''Papeʻetē'', pronounced ; old name: ''Vaiʻetē''Personal communication with Michael Koch in ) is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the France, French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. The Communes of France, commune of Papeʻetē is located on the island of Tahiti, in the Administrative divisions of French Polynesia, administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands (Society Islands), Windward Islands, of which Papeʻetē is the administrative capital.Décret n° 2005-1611 du 20 décembre 2005 pris pour l'application du statut d'autonomie de la Polynésie française , Légifrance Both the President of French Polynesia and High Commissi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andréa De Balmann
Andréa de Balmann (24 April 1913 – 2007) was the first French Polynesian woman to qualify as a doctor. She was the mother of doctor Mareva Tourneux. De Balmann was born on Makatea in the Tuamotus. Her father was the director of the French Phosphate Company there. Her mother died in the 1918 influenza pandemic when she was four years old, and at the age of 11 she was sent to France for her education. When the uncle she was staying with died, she was left alone in France. In 1936, she graduated as a dental surgeon, and in 1939, as a medical doctor - the first Polynesian woman to do so. After graduating, she returned to Tahiti, where she became involved in the conspiracy of the Mamao group to rally French Polynesia to the cause of Free France. She was director of the maternity ward at Vaiame hospital, and later director of the Malardé Institute. In 1972 she was made a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite. She was promoted to officer in 1981, and commander in 1990. In 1977 she ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1940s Establishments In French Polynesia
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar became a Roman Consul. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days. * First year of the ''Xingping'' era during the Han Dynasty in Ch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Research Institutes Established In 1948
Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to controlling sources of bias and error. These activities are characterized by accounting and controlling for biases. A research project may be an expansion of past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, and the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences. There are several forms of research: scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Medical Research Institutes In France
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others. Medicine has been practiced since prehistoric times, and for most of this time it was an art (an area of creativity and skill), frequently having connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an anci ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anna-Bella Failloux
Anna-Bella Failloux is a French Polynesian entomologist who is a professor of medical entomology at the Pasteur Institute. Failloux was born on Raiatea and grew up on Tahiti. She studied plant physiology at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, before completing a thesis on the parasitic worms responsible for Lymphatic filariasis at Paris-Sud University. She then worked at the Malardé Institute before joining the Pasteur Institute in 1994. Since 2011 she has been director of research on arboviruses and insect vectors. Her work has covered Bancroft's filariasis, Dengue fever, and Chikungunya. In January 2015 she was made a knight of the Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ... for her work on mosquito-borne diseases. In February 2019 she was promoted to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Suzanne Chanteau
Suzanne Chanteau (born 27 June 1952) is a French Polynesian medical researcher who directed the Pasteur Institute in New Caledonia from 2008 to 2013. She is notable for developing rapid diagnostic tests for plague, cholera, and bacterial meningitis. Chanteau was born in Papeete. After studying biology in France, she worked at the Malardé Institute in Tahiti from 1975 to 1993, working on Ciguatera fish poisoningg and Lymphatic filariasis. In 1994 she began working for the Pasteur Institute, initially in Madagascar, where she worked on Tuberculosis and Plague. In Madagascar she developed a rapid diagnostic method for plague and a rapid test for Cholera. In 2002 she was appointed director of the Pasteur Institute's research center in Niger, studying Meningitis. Again, she developed a rapid diagnostic test for the disease. From 2008 to 2013 she was director of the Pasteur Institute in New Caledonia. Honours In 1999 she was made a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite. In 2002 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raymond Bagnis
Raymond Bagnis (17 May 1932 – 19 July 2023) was a French medical doctor who practiced in French Polynesia for fifty years, during which he did significant research on Ciguatera fish poisoning. He was also a founder of the Proscience Te Turu ‘Ihi Association, and served as President of the French Polynesia Council of Physicians in 2019. Life and career Raymond Bagnis was born in Nice on 17 May 1932. He trained as a medical doctor at the ''École du service de santé des armées de Bordeaux'', graduating in 1959. He was then sent to Mauritania, where he worked in the mobile hygiene service for three years. In 1963, he moved to French Polynesia. After working in the Gambier Islands, he joined the Malardé Institute in 1967, leading their research on Ciguatera and becoming a leading expert on the disease. Bagnis retired from the institute in 1990. He then lectured at French Pacific University, before returning to medical practice. In 1992 he founded the Proscience Te Turu ‘Ih ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hervé Varet
Hervé is a French masculine given name of Breton origin, from the name of the 6th-century Breton Saint Hervé. The common latinization of the name is Herveus (also ''Haerveus''), an early (8th-century) latinization was ''Charivius''. Anglicized forms are Harvey and Hervey. Its Old Breton form was ''Huiarnviu'' (cf. Old Welsh ''Haarnbiu'' ), composed of the elements ''hoiarn'' ("iron", modern Breton ''houarn'', cf. Welsh ''haearn'') and ''viu'' ("bright", "blazing", modern Breton ''bev''). Its common Celtic form would have been ''*isarno-biuos'' or ''*-ue(s)uos''. Recorded Middle Breton forms of the name include ''Ehuarn, Ehouarn, Houarn''. The name of the 6th-century saint is recorded in numerous variants, including forms such as: ''Houarniault'', ''Houarneau''; as the name of a legendary Breton bard, the name occurs in varians such as ''Hyvarnion, Huaruoé, Hoarvian''.''Bulletin Archéologique de l'Association Bretonne '' t. 4 (1884)p. 206 People with the given name Med ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pascal Ramounet
Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to: People and fictional characters * Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name * Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and theologian Places * Pascal (crater), a lunar crater * Pascal Island (Antarctica) * Pascal Island (Western Australia) Science and technology * Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure * Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth ** Microsoft Pascal **Turbo Pascal * PASCAL (database), a bibliographic database maintained by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information * Pascal (microarchitecture), codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia Other uses * (1895–1911) * (1931–1942) * Pascal and Maximus, fictional characters in ''Tangled'' * Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape * Pascal College, secondary education scho ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Patrick Howell
Patrick Howell is a French Polynesian civil servant, politician, and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of Tapura Huiraatira. Howell trained as a dental surgeon and worked at the Teva I Uta medical center in the early 1980s before becoming head of dental hygiene services in French Polynesia. In 1993 he became director of public health. In the 1980s he campaigned against French nuclear testing and for the creation of a health register for test workers as part of the ''Tomite No Te Rai Hau'' ("Blue Skies Committee"). In May 1994 he was appointed Minister for the Environment and Scientific Research in the government of Gaston Flosse. In a cabinet reshuffle in June 1995 he became Minister of Employment, while retaining his Environment portfolio. In May 1996 he was appointed Minister of Health and Scientific Research, positions he held until September 2001. In 2008 he was elected a municipal councillor in Punaauia. In September 2014 he was appointed as Minister of Health and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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François Laudon
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 1694–1778), French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher * François Beauchemin (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks * François Blanc (1806–1877), French entrepreneur and operator of casinos * François Bonlieu (1937–1973), French alpine skier * François Cevert (1944–1973), French racing driver * François Chau (born 1959), Cambodian American actor * François Clemmons (born 1945), American singer and actor * François Corbier (1944–2018), French television presenter and songwriter * François Coty (1874–1934), French perfumer * François Coulomb the Elder (1654–1717), French naval architect * François Coulomb the Younger (1691–1751), French naval architect * François Couperin (1668–1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |