A Global Vision for Primary Care
Major Achievements

The FMT Chair

The creation of the Dr. Sadok Besrour Chair in Primary Care at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis stems from the Dr. Sadok Besrour Foundation’s patient efforts to raise Tunisia’s health sector to the highest international standards. This Chair was designed from the outset as an offshoot of the University of Oxford Chair, and a fruitful cooperation will be maintained between the two Chairs. Its mission is rooted in a comprehensive understanding of primary care as the foundation of contemporary health systems. It aims to strengthen

primary care, including family medicine, not only as a community-based clinical practice, but also as a field of training, research, care organisation, and institutional innovation.

The Dr. Sadok Besrour Chair in Primary Care at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis takes on particular significance within a space of dialogue that extends beyond the national framework alone. This Chair was conceived as a place for scientific and educational exchange between several linguistic and cultural worlds, notably the French and Arab speaking spaces. As such, its openness toward other regions reflects a determination to connect academic traditions, field practices, and public health priorities that, while diverse, converge around a shared goal: strengthening the place of primary care within health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Vision
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Mission
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In this context, international cooperation is an essential lever. The Chair’s ambition can thus be understood as that of a mediating structure between academic expertise, clinical experience, and social needs — one capable of circulating knowledge, supporting professional training, and promoting models suited to local realities. In doing so, it contributes to a vision of family medicine as a reference discipline for health justice, the social responsibility of medical institutions, and the sustainable strengthening of academic capacity.