Draft:Claire Chollat-Traquet

Claire Chollat-Traquet, born in 1944 in Paris, France, is a scientist and public health official. Married to Keiji Saita, born in 1938 in Tokyo. She has two children.

Education
Claire Chollat-Traquet studied Economics at the Université de Paris. She attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, the Institut des Hautes Etudes d'Amérique Latine, and the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises.

She earned her Licence des Sciences Economiques in 1965 and her Doctorat d'Etat es Sciences Economiques in 1970. Furthering her education, she studied Business and Economics at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 1970.

With a grant of the Ford Foundation, she contributed to health research in the Health Sciences Functional Planning Unit. These researches were the basis for her Ph D dissertation: "Critical study of the Financial Structure of the Ontario Health Sciences System and the possibilities of systematic reorganization".

Career
Claire Chollat-Traquet began her career as a Teaching Fellow at the Université de Paris and as an Assistant at the president Pierre Mendes-France. In Canada, she served as a Senior Economist and System Analyst at the Functional Planning Unit in Toronto, and as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Toronto.

In France, she joined the National Institute of Statistics and Economics (France), contributing to national economic plan projections. She also worked at Compagnie Générale d'Automatisme, Development Division and Libraire Hachette, Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne (NMPP).

Contributions
At the UN, Chollat-Traquet, under the guidance of Ms Helvi Sipilä, elaborated the objectives, targets and approaches of the Plan of Action for the First Decade of Women (1975).

At WHO, Chollat-Traquet significantly contributed to the development of program policy, evaluation and strategic planning, authoring and co-authoring key publications and working on major projects related to setting priorities for the WHO and developing evaluation frameworks for these priorities such as a budget reform and the Global Change programme.

She was involved in broader public health initiatives, such as the attempts to incorporate a 'spiritual dimension' into the WHO's definition of health. This work explores the holistic view of health, integrating physical, mental, and social well-being, and is used to understand the evolution of health definitions in global health policies.

She developed the first Tobacco or Health programme in WHO leading to a worldwide recognition of the danger of smoking.

Publications (inter alia)
Chollat-Traquet, Claire M., and World Health Organization. "Women and tobacco". World Health Organization, 1992.

Chollat-Traquet, Claire M. "Cleaner air at 10 000 metres: a smooth ride and passenger approval for the clean-air policy of airlines." World health 1991; May-June: 21 (1991).

Amos, Amanda, and Claire M. Chollat-Traquet. "Women and tobacco." World health 1990; Apr-May: 7-8 (1990).

Chollat-Traquet, Claire M. "World No-Tobacco Day: 31 May 1992." European Journal of cancer 1992; 28A (4-5): 723 (1992).

Chollat-Traquet, Claire. "Evaluation of Tobacco Control Programmes and Policies: Purpose, Process and Priorities." Tobacco and Health. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1995. 147-149.

Chollat-Traquet, Claire M. Evaluating tobacco control activities: experiences and guiding principles. World Health Organization, 1996.