Jean-François Corty is an associate researcher at IRIS, head of the humanitarian meetings organised by the Institute, and president of Médecins du Monde. He specialises in humanitarian action and health, social and environmental inequalities.

A doctor with degrees in political science and anthropology, he has been involved in humanitarian and medico-social action in France and internationally for nearly twenty years with international solidarity NGOs. He has held several positions with Médecins Sans Frontières in the field (Eritrea, Liberia, Afghanistan, Niger, Iran) and at headquarters between 2000 and 2008, then as Director of Operations for the Médecins du Monde association between 2009 and 2018. Involved in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic, he was medical coordinator of a Covid centre for people in precarious situations run by the Aurore association and the city of Paris in 2020, and of a Covid vaccination centre.

A lecturer at the Toulouse Institute of Political Studies and Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, he is a member of ATECOPOL (Political Ecology Workshop) in Toulouse.

He is the author of several books and films: co-author of the documentary film Contrepoisons, un combat citoyen (Squawk Films, 2024); Profession solidaire, chroniques de l’accueil (Steinkis/Les Escales, June 2020); La France qui accueille (de l’Atelier, 2018); Pratique et éthique médicales à l’épreuve des politiques sécuritaires (co-editor, Sciences Po Les Presses, 2010).