Françoise Barré-Sinoussi has been strongly implicated in promoting integration between research, training and actions in resource limited countries, in particular through the Institut Pasteur International Network and the coordination of the ANRS research programs in Cambodia and Vietnam.
In February 2009 she was elected member of the French Academy of Science. She is since July 2012 the President of the International AIDS Society (IAS). In 2013 she was nominated Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.
Through her career, she received more than 10 national or international awards, including the Nobel Prize for Medicine. She was also awarded Doctor Honoris Causa of a number of universities. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is author and co-author of 270 original publications, of more than 120 articles in book reviews and 250 communications in international congresses.