Véronique Régnier-Denois is a medical anthropologist (PhD – HDR) in Jean Monnet University of St Etienne. She has developed qualitative methodologies and used them in several contexts. She has initiated and carried out innovative prevention and research projects in France with the aim of promoting the science of prevention in the field of cancer. The involvement of populations, social representations of health and the understanding of how prevention messages can be constructed and received are major themes to which she has contributed very actively. Since September 2019, she has been in charge of organizing and managing this PRESAGE Institute, dedicated to health prevention, which brings together ten laboratories of the University Jean Monnet.