Understanding Vaccination - Festival Imagésanté

Understanding Vaccination

This program will review the usefulness of vaccination, its history and development, and present the different types of vaccine and the importance of preventive measures.

Date & Time

Wednesday 29 March 14:00

Location

The Mirror City

Type of program

Health broadcast

Program

– Vaccine history and actions (immunity, cancer resistance, etc.)
– Exact composition of vaccines and differences in type
– Vaccines, one preventive tool among others
– Usefulness of booster shots (resurgence of certain diseases)
– Difference between natural immunity and vaccine immunity
– Legal obligation to vaccinate, what is it and why?
– Beliefs and rumors
– Cost-benefit analysis

Journalist

Arnaud Ruyssen

Guests

Nathalie Jacobs

Virologist - Professor of virology, ULiège

Olivier Ethgen

Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics Research Unit, ULiège

Thierry Wanet

General practitioner

Vinciane Defosse

Patient