Patrick Fougeyrollas, Ph.D. Social Anthropologist
Dr. Fougeyrollas was born in Paris, France 1951. He has been living in Quebec City, Canada, since 1976. Dr. Fougeyrollas is a professor and scientific support director at the University Institute of Rehabilitation of Quebec City. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and in the Department of Anthropology at Laval University. He is a researcher at the Rehabilitation and Social Integration Interdisciplinary Research Center. He is a founding member and President of the International Network on the Disability Creation Process (INDCP) and has been an active member of international and North American committees related to rehabilitation, social integration, Disability Issues and Health Classification for the World Health Organization and the Council of Europe. He was a board member on the Canadian Center on Disability Studies from 1998 to 2003. He is now the vice deputy of the North America RI (Rehabilitation International) Executive Committee. He is also a board member of the Régie de l’Assurance-maladie du Québec.
Dr. Fougeyrollas is a social researcher specialised in the study of the interactive person/environment process, determining the quality of social participation of persons with organic or functional differences. He is an active advocate in the International Disability Movement for the exercise of human rights and equalization of opportunities for people with disabilities. He developed the Quebec Governmental Disability Social Policy “On equal terms” (1985). With his team in Quebec, he developed the Classification Disability Creation Process which was innovating as soon as 1989, by its full recognition of environmental factors and urged the clarification of personal factors, and clear conceptual distinction between activities and participation from extrinsic factors, in the international debate around the revision of WHO-ICIDH and development of ICF. The INDCP is promoting the Quebec framework and DCP Classification, because its pedagogical approach, and conceptual clearness is still missing to ICF and many researchers, clinicians and Disability rights advocates views. Since 1995 he also developed new tools for measuring the quality of social participation and their physical and social environmental determinants. These tools are fully validated and have a strong influence and utility in rehabilitation and social research in Disability Social Policy at the international level.