A word from the president
This institution has succeeded in combining research support and action in the field. 
Jean-Paul Berthomé, President of the Mustela Foundation and of Laboratoires Expanscience, looks back on more than 25 years of work alongside early childhood health care professionals
Why the Mustela Foundation?
Improving children’s wellbeing was the aim my father, Paul BERTHOMÉ, president of Laboratoires Expanscience at the time, assigned to the Mustela Foundation in 1982. His wish was to develop, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, a non-commercial approach for the socially committed brand Mustela.
How would you sum up the Mustela Foundation’s action some twenty-five years later?
Firstly, the Mustela Foundation is now widely known by childhood health care professionals, including paediatric nurses, midwives, paediatricians… With time, some of these experts have even become close relations. Secondly, this institution has succeeded in combining research support and action in the field. It has thus accompanied the evolution of early childhood since 1982, looking at various subjects such as childbirth preparation, newborn care, the role of health care professionals, and the place of early childhood care institutions…
What are your future prospects?
The Mustela Foundation will be looking to travel further down the new paths it has taken in 2006 and 2007, not least a more pronounced commitment in the field with the creation of the Social Paediatrics Award (Prix de Pédiatrie Sociale) in France, and a reinforced presence on the international scene, with the declension of the Social Paediatrics Award in Italy and backing for a humanitarian organisation working abroad on the mother-child bond.
Jean-Paul Berthomé
