His last major role was that of a firefighter, who came to replace Benjamin Griveaux unsuccessfully in the race for mayor of Paris.
Agnès Buzyn is back in that, less exposed, of master adviser in extraordinary service at the Court of Auditors.
It was the Elysée that announced the news on July 29.
The former Minister of Health in the government of Edouard Philippe will join the institution from September 1, 2022. Agnès Buzyn, a hematologist by profession, had notably directed the National Cancer Institute, before being appointed in 2017 Minister of health.
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His time at the ministry was marked by a social movement in hospitals as well as the controversy over the end of reimbursement of homeopathy by Health Insurance, a measure in favor of which Ms. Buzyn weighed.
She left the ministry in early 2020 to run for mayor of Paris, replacing the previous majority candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, at the last moment.
This choice had been the subject of strong criticism due to the context marked by the start of the Covid pandemic in France.
The former minister, who later headed the Academy of the World Health Organization (WHO), was indicted at the end of 2021 for endangering the lives of others in her management of the epidemic , a decision criticized by part of the political world which fears an excessive judicialization of public action.
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