Maria Melchior has a doctorate in science from Harvard University and is a qualified researcher at UVSQ. She is an epidemiologist and research director at Inserm. Her work focuses on social inequalities in mental health and addictive behaviors, with a particular interest in developmental trajectories from childhood to adulthood and the intergenerational transmission of psychological difficulties. Her research is based mainly on longitudinal cohort data from France (EDEN, ELFE, TEMPO) and other countries (ELDEQ in Canada, DNBC in Denmark).
She has received the Research Prize from the European Psychiatric Association (2012), the Early Career Award from the International Society of Behavioral Medicine (2004) and the Prix Recherche Addictions from MILDECA (2018).
She is the author or co-author of over two hundred and eighty original articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Her projects are funded by the ANR, the Fonds de lutte contre les addictions, the EU (H2020, Horizon Europe) and the ERC (Consolidator 2021-2025). She is the author of Santé mentale : un défi pour le XXIe siècle (Michalon, 2023) and co-editor ofÉpidémiologie sociale : concepts, méthodes et exemples d'application (Presses de l'EHESP, 2024).
