The High Council for Public Health is responsible for:
1° To contribute to the development, annual monitoring and multi-year assessment of the national health strategy;
2° To provide the public authorities, in conjunction with the health agencies and the High Authority for Health, with the expertise needed to manage health risks and to design and evaluate health prevention and safety policies and strategies;
3° To provide the public authorities with forward-looking thinking and advice on public health issues;
4° To contribute to the development of a comprehensive and concerted child health policy.
It may be consulted by the ministers concerned, by the chairmen of the relevant parliamentary committees and by the chairman of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Health Policies on any issue relating to prevention, health safety or the performance of the health system.