Doctor Marie Antignac

Dr Marie ANTIGNAC serves as the Head of the Hospital Pharmacy Department at the large teachning hospital of Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, FRANCE (AP-HP), bringing 20 years of experience as a hospital pharmacist specialising in medication safety and clinical pharmacy. Affiliated with an Inserm unit U970, she earned her Ph.D. and HDR, she designed and directs the pharmaceutical team of the global health module, focusing her research since 2011 on access to medications in LMIC. Her work aims to explore two dimensions of medicine access in Africa: the quality of drugs and treatment acceptability (from both prescriber and patient perspectives, particularly adherence), conducting significant publications, in close collaboration with the African Research Network (ARN-NCD, encompassing 19 African countries). In 2025, her team contributed to the establishment of the Global Health Institute at University Paris Cité. She is the founder of Observatory for Quality Medicines in Global Health (OQMgh)