Contact: Stéphane PAUL, Professor (PU-PH) Phone : +33 4 77 82 89 75
e-mail : stephane.paul@chu-st-etienne.fr
Christine DELPRAT, Professor (PU1), Emilie BOURDONNAY, Assistant-Professor
Keywords: perception, health, communication, epidemiology
Aims of “Advertising on vaccines and public health”: Vaccines have been and remain a major tool for public health strategies. But the growing complexity of current vaccine agendas for children, the ongoing introduction of new vaccines (conjugate vaccines, programs targeting adults or the aging, addressing chronic or non-infectious diseases) have made decision-making more complex for vaccine producers and authorities in public health and blurred the meanings and purposes of vaccination for the general public. Accordingly, it appears important to provide all apprentices and professionals dealing with vaccines with knowledge pertaining to social sciences as well as biomedical sciences.(1) History of vaccination and vaccines; (2) Epidemiology and vaccination; (3) The place of vaccination in public health decisions; (4) Social factors influencing vaccine policies and strategies in different countries; (5) Anthropology of vaccine acceptance and rejection; (6) Public and media perception of vaccination and vaccines; (7) Health economics and vaccines; (8) The future of vaccinology.
Practices: students will build a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) related to vaccination, being managed by the MOOC managers of the TU “Project management” developing digital skills and networking capacities
Speakers:
Teaching Staff Immunology from University of Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and from the CNRS supporting partner “SPHERE”.
Conferences concerning news items will be organized. Speakers will be invited on specific subjects, selected for their excellence.
