GERES

What GERES does

GERES (Groupe d'étude sur le risque d'exposition des soignants aux agents infectieux) is a French non-profit association founded in 1991 in the wake of healthcare worker HIV contaminations from accidental needlestick injuries. Headquartered at Université Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine (site Bichat) in Paris, the association operates as a professional expert body focused on preventing and managing occupational infectious risks among healthcare workers in France. Its primary audiences are frontline healthcare professionals — nurses, physicians, hygienists, and occupational health physicians — and the healthcare institutions that employ them, with secondary engagement with public health authorities.

GERES does not develop proprietary software products; its core activity is aggregating, curating, and disseminating evidence-based guidance. Its principal assets are the EFICATT database (co-developed and co-maintained with INRS), which provides guidance on conduct to follow after accidental occupational exposure to infectious agents; the WebAES web-based surveillance platform used by healthcare facilities to track needlestick injuries and blood exposures; a comprehensive safety equipment database cataloging barrier devices and protective materials; and a library of educational diaporamas, technical guides, and vaccination protocols. Outputs are published as freely accessible resources on geres.org.

The business model is membership- and grant-based rather than transactional. All resources are free of charge. Historical revenue came primarily from an annual subsidy from the Direction Générale de la Santé (DGS) of the French Ministry of Health, supplemented by membership fees (adhésions) from individuals and institutions, and donations. In 2025, the DGS suspended its annual subsidy, with 2026 funding remaining uncertain, prompting GERES to launch a public donation appeal. The association reaches its audience through its website, regular newsletters, annual Journées du GERES conferences, and active participation in professional society congresses (SF2H, ANMTEPH, CNMST, JNI), and collaborates with INRS, SF2H, Santé Publique France, EHESP, ANMTEPH, CPias, and ONI on surveillance, research, and joint guideline development.

Name

GERES

Legal name

GERES - Groupe d'étude sur le risque d'exposition des soignants aux agents infectieux

Website

https://geres.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GERES is a French non-profit association founded in 1991 that prevents occupational infectious risks for healthcare workers. It maintains the EFICATT reference database with INRS, the WebAES surveillance platform, and a safety equipment database, serving nurses, physicians, and institutions across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Occupational Health / Healthcare Worker Safety

NAICS

Administration of Public Health Programs (92312)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Disease Surveillance, Epidemiology & Outbreak Response (BPAIAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

General Infectious Disease (HLAKAGAA), Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance & Coverage Monitoring (HLAJABAK), Infectious Disease Program Evaluation (e.g., HIV/TB/Malaria/STIs) (HLAJANAF)

Keywords

• Occupational infectious risk prevention
• Healthcare worker safety
• Needlestick injury surveillance
• Blood exposure management
• Healthcare vaccination guidance

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Subsidy (DGS): The primary funding source has been an annual subsidy from the Direction Générale de la Santé (DGS), French Ministry of Health. In 2025, DGS suspended this subsidy, threatening the association's operations. Funding for 2026 remains uncertain.
2. Membership Fees and Donations: The association accepts members (adhérents) who pay membership fees and also solicits donations from the public and healthcare institutions to sustain its activities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

GERES is a French non-profit association that develops, curates, and disseminates evidence-based reference resources and surveillance tools for the prevention of occupational infectious risks among healthcare workers. Its core offerings include the EFICATT occupational exposure guidance database (co-developed with INRS), the WebAES surveillance platform for blood exposure incidents, a comprehensive safety equipment database of protective medical devices, and an extensive library of vaccination, tuberculosis prevention, and AES management guidance materials—all distributed free of charge via its website and annual professional events.

Product overview

GERES is a non-profit association focused on preventing infectious risks among healthcare workers in France and internationally. The organization's offerings center on a portfolio of knowledge resources and surveillance tools: the EFICATT database for managing occupational exposure to infectious agents; the WebAES platform for tracking needlestick injuries; and a comprehensive safety equipment database cataloging protective devices and barrier methods. Supporting these core tools are educational materials including diaporamas (presentation slides), practical guides on tuberculosis prevention and vaccination protocols, and AES management procedures. All offerings function as interconnected reference resources within the healthcare occupational safety domain rather than a modular software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EFICATT Database (Exposition Fortuite à un agent Infectieux et Conduite À Tenir en milieu de Travail)
• WebAES Platform (WebAES#2 / WebAES-Ville)
• Guide des matériels de protection (Safety Equipment Database)
• Tuberculosis Prevention Guide and Technical Sheets

Quantifiable outcome

• 125 health facilities participated in the 2019 APC study using GERES's WebAES#2 platform, demonstrating broad institutional adoption of GERES surveillance tools.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• ANMTEPH (Association Nationale des Médecins de ville et des Professionnels de Santé en milieu de Travail pour la Prévention et la Santé au Travail)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 September 2025Collaborative partner in the Vax-Action study (MINT & SMART), which supports healthcare professionals in conversations about influenza vaccination. Study conducted in partnership with EHESP and Institut Pasteur.
• EHESP (École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 September 2025Research partner in the Vax-Action study (MINT & SMART) led by Dr. Judith Mueller, together with GERES and ANMTEPH, evaluating motivational interviewing tools for influenza vaccination communication.
• INRS (Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-development and co-maintenance of the EFICATT database ('Exposition fortuite à un agent infectieux et conduite à tenir en milieu de travail'), the premier occupational exposure guidance database for healthcare workers in France.
• SF2H (Société Française d'Hygiène Hospitalière)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFormal partnership for joint sessions at annual congresses, shared guideline development (including SF2H/GERES avis on glove use during injections), and complementary expertise in hospital hygiene and occupational infectious risk prevention.
• CPias Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Centre d'appui pour la Prévention des Infections Associées aux Soins)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnical partner in the 2019 APC study among nurses in health facilities, providing support for the WebAES#2 surveillance platform used by 125 participating establishments.
• Ordre National des Infirmiers (ONI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRequested the development of the WebAES-Ville platform for liberal (community-based) nurses to report their occupational exposures (AES), developed by CPias Bourgogne-Franche-Comté with GERES methodology.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SF2H (Société Française d'Hygiène Hospitalière): Direct peer — French learned society in hospital hygiene that co-publishes guidelines with GERES, jointly runs sessions at congresses, and serves a closely overlapping audience of hygienists, occupational health, and infectious disease professionals.
• Ordre National des Infirmiers (ONI): Direct peer — French national nurses' order that commissioned the WebAES-Ville platform for community nurses; closely overlaps with GERES on AES surveillance and post-exposure protocol guidance for nursing professionals.
• INRS (Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité): Direct peer and core co-development partner — co-maintains the EFICATT database with GERES and serves occupational health and safety across all French sectors, with deep overlap on biological risk guidance for healthcare workers.
• CPias (Centres d'appui pour la Prévention des Infections Associées aux Soins): Direct peer — regional French public structures providing support on prevention of healthcare-associated infections; developed the WebAES#2 platform alongside GERES and have overlapping surveillance mandates.
• EHESP (École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique): Peer — research and training partner in the Vax-Action study, public health school with overlapping mandate on healthcare worker occupational health, infectious disease prevention, and health programme evaluation.
• ANMTEPH: Direct peer — French association of occupational health physicians that co-leads the Vax-Action study with GERES, addressing vaccination hesitancy among healthcare professionals in overlapping occupational health practice.

Emerging players

• GEREPI / GFATM-related francophone Africa networks: Emerging / regional players — networks of francophone African infection prevention bodies that overlap with GERES's international activities in Africa, and represent potential expansion vs competitive overlap depending on funding flows.

Broad incumbents

• Santé Publique France: Broad incumbent — national public health agency that funds GERES studies, provides epidemiological data, and operates overlapping surveillance and prevention missions at much greater scale across all population segments.
• CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Healthcare Worker Safety: Broad incumbent — US federal agency that publishes authoritative healthcare worker infection prevention guidance (e.g., NIOSH needlestick prevention), functionally similar to GERES's occupational infectious risk remit but at national scale.
• ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control): Broad incumbent — EU-level infectious disease surveillance and guidance agency that operates at much greater scale and could, in principle, subsume or substitute for many of GERES's national reference functions across Europe.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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