Register quickly for our 5th Fulbright France "café scientifique" that will take place online on August 30 at 1:00 pm (Paris time) / 7:00 am (Washington time)!
The theme “Responses to pandemics and misinformation” will be addressed by:
• Mr. Arnaud Fontanet: French Fulbright alumnus (Harvard University, 1990/1991), epidemiologist, Director of the Pasteur-Cnam School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Global Health and Director of the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur (Paris); he was a member of the Scientific Council advising the Executive on Covid-19.
• Ms. Chine Labbé: French Fulbright France alumna (Columbia University, 2009/2010), journalist, European Editor-in-Chief at NewsGuard, an American company that assesses the reliability of news and information websites. In 2021, she helped launch the "VaxFacts" campaign, fighting against Covid-19 vaccine misinformation and other false health information.
• Mr. Yazdan Yazdanpanah: Franco-Iranian Fulbright France alumnus (Harvard University, 1998/1999), infectiologist, Head of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at Bichat-Claude-Bernard Hospital (Paris) and Director of the ANRS, Inserm's I3M thematic institute (immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology); he was a member of the Scientific Council advising the Executive on Covid-19.
• Ms. Aude Favre: investigative journalist (Spécial investigation, Complément d'enquête, Le monde en face...), President of the Fake Off association and founder of the "Citizen Facts" project: gigantic collaborative newsroom offering any citizen to investigate with information professionals (Media Prize of the Assises internationales du journalisme de Tours 2023).
The online conference will be moderated by :
• Ms. Yousra Kherabi: French Fulbright France 2023/2024 grantee (Université Paris-Cité / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - NIAID), PhD specialist in tuberculosis.
