Health: The big issues

This is a general culture course that will deal with many current topics related to human health. This course will address, in the form of mini seminars of 1h30, a wide variety of topics, with a pragmatic and critical approach. The numerous speakers of this course will bring their expertise on subjects such as immunity, molecular biology, cancer, food, diagnosis, vaccination, bioethics, ecology, neurosciences, emerging diseases or therapeutic treatments of today and tomorrow. Each presentation will not only provide cutting-edge knowledge and critical analysis of their subjects, but will also guide students in searching and filtering scientific information in order to fight misinformation. On the major human health issues of the 21st century, we will address the real questions, the false polemics, as well as the solutions we can bring to them. 

the student will be able to:

 -To master documentary research on current and sometimes controversial topics in human health.

- Develop an openness to the general culture related to the world of human health.

- To develop and argue one's critical analysis on the basic notions of doubt, evidence and scientific confrontations.

- To be able to write a simple scientific analysis in an independent and objective way.