[PUBLIC EVENT] Lyon hosts the Global Health Festival

From December 9, 2024 to December 20, 2024

From December 9 to 20, Lyon is hosting the Global Health Festival to celebrate the inauguration of the WHO Academy in the Lyon-Gerland Biodistrict. Fifty or so events, organized by a number of local stakeholders, including member and associate institutions of the Université de Lyon, to explore major global health issues.

The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Prefecture, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the Métropole de Lyon, the City of Lyon and the WHO Academy are organizing a Global Health Festival.

Open to the general public, this festival will take place from December 9 to 20, 2024 throughout the city of Lyon and its metropolitan area, with a special focus on the Lyon-Gerland Biodistrict, an evolving international hub for global health, celebrating the opening of a new major stakeholder: the WHO Academy.
 

Institutions from the Lyon Saint-Étienne site are taking part in the program

► Conferences and round tables: “10 years of medical simulation in Lyon”, organized by SimUlyon
Friday, December 13, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Conferences on medical simulation research and innovation
at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Rockefeller Campus, 10 rue Volney, Lyon 8, France
Registration required

► Conferences on research and digital innovation in health
Friday, December 13, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
at the Sciences Po Lyon Public Factory, 10 ruelle du grand casernement, Lyon 7, France
Registration required

► Science Day at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Morning: Presentation of SHAPE-Med@Lyon and launch of the Graduate School of Public Health
Afternoon: overview of major national and international global health and life sciences initiatives in terms of education, research and innovation
6 p.m.: Public Conference Zoonotic Diseases: examples of one health and global health
Distribution of the Pop’Sciences magazine
Monday, December 16, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
At the Institute of actuarial and financial sciences (ISFA) Lyon 1, 50 Avenue Tony Garnier, Lyon 7, France
Registration period closed

► Rivers and Health: new insights at the crossroads of political, economic, social and environmental issues
Monday, December 16, from 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
at the Sciences Po Lyon Public Factory- 10 ruelle du Grand Casernement Lyon 7, France
Conference organized by the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône and Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers, with the participation of Dr. Duruisseaux, Assistant Medical Director of the Lyon Public Hospital System (HCL) Oncology Institute and Pulmonologist at Louis Pradel Hospital.
Registration required

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