By : Gregory Ninot
Date : Thursday 29 January 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Keys words: Prevention, care, health, precision medicine, methodology, best practice, transferability
Prof. Gregory Ninot
Associated Director of Desbrest Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health Inserm & University of Montpellier Research Manager at the Cancer Institute of Montpellier
Senior Member at the Institut Universitaire de France President Founder of Non-Pharmacological Intervention Society
Summury : Non-pharmacological interventions (NPI) have been mentioned by public health authorities (e.g., WHO, 2003; British National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2008; French National Authority for Health, 2011; Irish Department of Health, 2014; US National Institutes of Health, 2016; European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2022), given their potential to improve health, autonomy and quality of life in the long-term, reduce healthcare expenditure and trigger behavioral changes. However, “fake health news” have spread rapidly in the past years, especially for health services. It was therefore urgent to provide a consensual European definition and evaluation framework for the citizens (patients, professionals and healthcare operators) to determine and follow evidence-based, patient-centred, targeted and immaterial health programmes. This will allow better choice, engagement, traceability (e.g., AI systems) and possible financial coverage along the whole value chain. Such framework has been co-designed in a transdisciplinary, inter sectoral, participative and independent scientific study. The NPIS model resulted in the definition of a perimeter of psychosocial, nutritional and physical practices to define NPI as “an evidence-based, effective, personalized, non-invasive health prevention or care protocol, registered and supervised by a qualified professional”. It produced a specific a standardised validation process, from mechanistic and prototype studies to clinical and implementation studies. Then, the participative work produced a centralized and open register of labelled, described, codified and scalable NPI cards: the NPIS registry. A roadmap covers the whole value chain from research to practice.Evaluation framework for NPI NPI domain NPI characteristic
