The role of the Steering and Dialogue Committee is to:
1° Contribute to the quality and relevance of the Agency’s actions by providing its vision of current and future public health issues and the social questions they raise;
2° Propose priorities in the Agency’s areas of activity and guidelines for its annual work programme;
3° Helping to improve the Agency’s communication methods, particularly in health crisis situations within the framework of the guidelines laid down by the Ministry of Health, and the conditions for disseminating public health knowledge to the various sections of the population;
4° To enable the Agency to contribute to public debates on public health issues, in particular by presenting the scientific knowledge available and, where appropriate, the context of scientific uncertainty in which health decisions must be taken.