Institut Cerba can conduct, finance or co-finance public-interest missions, actions or programmes, which it implements directly or manages together with one or several non-profit organisations. The projects submitted to it must be directly connected with the missions it has set itself.

As such, Institut Cerba has decided to support several patient associations that strive to assist patients, their families and all healthcare professionals concerned, as well as a learned society.

Since 1997, AGCOH is an open-access, international, collaborative database and encyclopaedia reviewed by peers dedicated to genes cytogenetics and clinical cases in the areas of cancer and cancer related diseases.

At a crossroad between research and clinical biology, it promotes spreading and sharing knowledge as well as accelerating medical progress. For several years, Cerba Institute has financially supported AGCOH.

Cerba Institute has been granting, in collaboration with the Dean of the Farmacy Faculty of the Aix-Marseille University, an award for the most promising and innovating doctoral thesis in the fields of medical biology, improving patient care and equal access to progress in biology for all.

Thus, every year two awards are presented at the Parmasillia ceremony, the ceremony of the PHD certificate awards. 

AMPS association’s purpose is to reunite students is the fields of medicine,  Pharmacy and science studies from different French universities and promote exchanges in these fields of expertise. Cerba Institute has already supported a hackathon co-organised by AMPS and MIT as well the Journées Françaises de Doubles Cursus – a scientific congres organised by AMPS Imagine.

ASAF is a Marseille-based association that has been involved for almost 25 years in the field of healthcare in Armenia. It has installed and/or equipped several cardiovascular centers in this country and provided training in the technique of coronary angioplasty (stent pose) in France for fifteen Armenian cardiologists. The Cerba Institute has also funded the equipment of two of the ambulances acquired by ASAF, in order to ensure assistance for patients in the acute phase of myocardial heart attack.

Ba Yo Dlo is an association that helps dig wells in remote Senegalese
villages and has been delivering medicines and equipment to clinics and nurseries since 2015.
The Cerba Institute has helped finance these actions.

ASDU is an association of parents of children with rare genetic diseases without a diagnosis. It aims to accompany families towards the appropriate specialists and help them avoid a medical wandering that can sometimes last more than 10 years. The Cerba Institute helps ASDU finance its actions.

Since 2011, Sol6 has been the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) students solidarity association allowing them to develop and implement their projects of international solidarity in the fields of education and health. The Cerba Institute helped finance the trip and the work of a group of students in India to help build and equip a dispensary.

Belle et Bien is an association that helps women and men fighting cancer cope with their disease by providing them with esthetic care that brings confidence and self-esteem, additional weapons in the fight against cancer. The Cerba Institute financially supports this association.

AMREF is the leading public health NGO in Africa with nearly 10 million people helped through 159 programmes in 35 African countries. The Health Club Africa is an endowment fund that brings together companies and foundations around AMREF that want to pool their actions in Africa to improve people's health. The Cerba Institute is a particularly active member of the Africa Health Club for the third year in a row through a middle patronage and a competent sponsorship. He is particularly involved in four programs:

• Stand-Up for African Mothers: training of 15,000 midwives on the continent
• PRECIS: institutionalization of e-learning for nurses in Côte d'Ivoire Health
• Capital: fairground consultations, surgical camps and mini-children's
• CELLAL E KESAL: deployment of telemedicine suitcases combined with e-learning

AFDIAG is a patient association governed by the 1901 law, supported by a 43-member medical committee, which has been bringing together about 6,000 families since 1989. The Cerba Institute helped the association set up two professional awareness campaigns on celiac disease ("Gluten-free cooking in a community" and "Well diagnosing gluten intolerance").

Debra is an association present in several European countries and which advocates for specialized care accessible to all and affordable as well as for the recognition of bubble epidermolysis as a chronic and rare disease. Bubble epidermolysis is a rare, particularly painful and disabling dermatological disease that causes bubbles to appear under the epidermis which, in addition to permanent pain, can lead to mutilation, cancer and death. The Cerba Institute helped the Belgian entity of Debra to reissue a book on education and information on the epidermolysis bubble for children and adults.

FFAMH is a federation of associations of patients with hemochromatosis, a genetic disease caused by excessive iron absorption that causes toxic accumulation in the body. Undiagnosed, it evolves and can cause serious illnesses (cirrhosis, liver cancer, heart failure, etc.) and premature death. The Cerba Institute has supported the FFAMH through a sponsorship of skills to develop knowledge and screening for this disease.

In 2018 and 2019, the Cerba Institute supported the Health for All trade fair, dedicated to informing the general public about health. Through sponsorships of resources and skills, the Cerba Institute has enabled the organization of three (in 2018) and two (in 2019) public health education conferences on gluten intolerance, gut microbiota, cellular aging and endocrine disruptors.