My research interests focus on social inequalities in health, in particular the biopsychosocial determinants of health and the analysis of the mechanisms building social inequalities in health (SIH), especially in the field of chronic diseases like cancer. More specifically, my researches focus on the mechanisms by which the environment, broadly defined, is biologically embodied, how it is incorporated and can affect the good functioning to promote the development of diseases in the long term. My aim is to explain SIH not only by physical exposures, chemical and health behaviors socially distributed but also by showing that social determinants can change "directly" biological processes and favor the development of pathologies at distance, participating therefore to the genesis of the social gradient in health.