The COVID-19 Outbreak and Public Health Issues: an Interdisciplinary Approach

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The COVID-19 Outbreak has been an immense challenge for life sciences for almost a year. But it also puts societies around the world to the test and obliges states and international organizations to take measures of a biopolitical nature. Because this crisis questions us about the relationship of our societies to the living and to « nature », about the scientific and social character of our modernity, understanding its stakes in all their magnitude requires an interdisciplinary approach. This workshop will cover various national fields. It will present the issues at stake in current research conducted by the organizers of this workshop in fields as diverse as genetics, epidemiology, economics, geography, and political science, but all of which are aimed at understanding the deep-seated forces behind the pandemic and its consequences and exploring ways to emerge from it.

Program

Moderators: Anavaj SAKUNTABHAI (Pasteur Institute), Bernard THOMANN (FRIJ-MFJ)

16:00
Presentation of the workshop by Anavaj SAKUNTABHAI (Pasteur Institute), Bernard THOMANN (FRIJ-MFJ)

16:10
Shigeru HIROTA (RIETI/Kyoto-University), « Socio-Life Scientific Survey on COVID-19 »

16:30
Questions

16 :40
Guillaume LADMIRAL (FRIJ-MFJ), « Socio-economic factors of Sars-Cov-2 spread in Japan and in France »

17:00
Questions

17:10
Tamara GILES-VERNICK (Pasteur Institute), « (Re)thinking the infodemic: Social media and offline engagement in the COVID-19 pandemic »

17 :30
Questions

17:40
Fumihiko MATSUDA (Kyoto University), « Socio-life science and the role of large-scale genome cohort study »

18 :00
Questions

18:10
General discussion

Organization: FRIJ-MFJ, Pasteur Institute, RIETI
Support: Kyoto University