Lastly, the CGLPL has further developed its ties with international organisations. It particularly spoke on the subject of deaths while in detention, at the regional consultation of the World Health Organization (WHO) on health in prisons. This was attended by State representatives from some thirty countries, academics, representatives of such international organisations as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Dignity, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Penal Reform International. The Chief Inspectorate also took part in a work meeting organised by the ICRC in Paris on the issue of identifying and managing elderly people in detention, in the presence of international experts, academics, representatives of prison administrations and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. 2. Creation of a scientific committee In keeping with the commitments of the Chief Inspector of places of deprivation of liberty, a scientific committee has been set up at the CGLPL. This body is tasked with drawing on the thoughts and experience of researchers working in similar areas to those coming within the institution's remit to inform the Chief Inspectorate's own discussion process. Independent experts have thus been brought together who have gained unanimous recognition for their work in law, psychiatry, migrations, history and sociology. The scientific committee's meetings must mutually benefit both its members and the CGLPL team, by sharing approaches and knowledge, pooling experiences and practices and comparing perspectives, knowledge and questions. The scientific committee will hold closed sessions three times a year for talks on work that the CGLPL has recently published and in which the whole team at the CGLPL has been involved. In addition, a public symposium, which could lead to a publication, will also be organised annually. The experts who have been called on share the CGLPL members' commitment to the respect of fundamental rights. They accepted the invitation to take part in the scientific committee with enthusiasm. Ms Mireille Delmas-Marty, Professor of Law and former Professor at the Collège de France, agreed to take up position as Chair of the scientific committee. The other committee members are as follows: - Michel Agier, ethnologist and anthropologist, coordinator of the collective work "Un monde de camps ", la Découverte, (2014); - Jean Danet, former President of the Lawyers' Union of France, honorary lawyer, lecturer at Nantes Faculty of Law and member of the High Council for the Judiciary (CSM); - Didier Fassin, anthropologist, sociologist and physician, Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study. Author of "L’ombre du monde, une anthropologie de la condition carcérale ", Le Seuil (2015) in particular; - Benjamin Stora, historian, Chairman of the Policy Board of the cité internationale de l'histoire de l’immigration; - Mark Thomson, Secretary-General of the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT); 94