Jacques Morenas

Assistant Director

French Agency for the Safety of Health Products (AFSSAPS) Chairman, PIC/S Jacques Morénas is civil servant as « pharmacien général de santé publique » and belongs to the pharmacist-inspector profession. He is graduated as a pharmacist from the faculty of pharmacy (1977) [University of Clermont-Ferrand (France)]. He received his pharmacist inspector degree from the National School for Public Health (1980) [Rennes (France)] He had different positions in the French health administration in the Ministry of Health and in the regional inspectorate of Paris.

He joined the French Drug Agency in 1993 and is actually assistant director of the Inspection and Companies department in the French Health Products Safety Agency (AFSSAPS), in Saint Denis (France). He is in charge of international affairs (in the field of good manufacturing practice), quality assurance (for the Inspection and Companies department), including training (for the inspectors of the French Agency). At the European level, he is the AFSSAPS's representative to the GMDP IWG of European Medicines Agency (EMEA-Londres). At the International level, he is the chairman of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC/S). He is also involved, as EU expert, in ICH discussions concerning implementation of Q8, Q9 and Q10 documents and he is participating to the WHO program on pre-qualification of vaccines (assessment of National Regulatory Authorities).