Professor Lucien Abenhaim is a pharmacoepidemiologist and an expert in public health. His focus is the impact of numerous drugs on populations and risks associated with work. He is recognised as one of the greatest French General Directos of Health (Surgeon General).
In this later capacity he oversaw the public health of the country and participated in European regulatory decisions. He also was an elected Member of the Executive Committee of the World Health Organization.
Prof Abenhaim has written many academic papers throughout his career, one of the most influential being "Appetite-Suppressant Drugs and the Risk of Primary Pulmonary Hypertension", which he wrote in 1996.