Le 06/09/2021

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Directed by Sophie Bensadoun, and produced by CNRS Images, the film ' Pandemies' (30’ – 2021) is now on line.

Experience how the biologists, anthopologists, mathematicians or historians can help us to 'learn lessons' from the Covid-19 health crisis; how can they help us to prevent our society from being paralysed once more by a forthcoming pandemic?

A pandemic is an intricate phenomenon, an invariant in which human is tight in its environment. From neolithique to nowadays [2021], from rinderpest to SARS-CoV-2, new  infectious diseases appearance often result from human alterations on its environment.
The 2020 worldwilde health crisis is a real warning signal on the living uses. This documentary describes how the researchers can help us to learn lessons from the Covid-19 health crisis; how can they help us to prevent our society from being paralysed by a future pandemic?

Researchers:

-Anne RASMUSSEN, Sciences Historian (EHESS) - Centre Alexandre Koyré /Histoire des sciences et des techniques (CAK) - EHESS / MNHN / CNRS

-Frédéric KECK, Anthropologist (CNRS) - Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS) - CNRS / Collège de France / EHESS

-François RENAUD, Evolutionary Biologist (CNRS) - Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC) - CNRS / IRD / Université de Montpellier

-Etienne DECROLY, Virologist (CNRS) - Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques (AFMB) - Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS

-Bruno CANARD, Virologist (CNRS) - Architecture et fonction des macromolécules biologiques (AFMB) - Aix-Marseille université / CNRS

-Samuel ALIZON, Evolutionary Biologist (CNRS) - Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC) - CNRS / IRD / Université de Montpellier

-Jean-Stéphane DHERSIN, Mathematician (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) - Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications (LAGA) /Institut national des sciences mathématiques et de leurs interactions (INSMI) - CNRS / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

- Claire LAJAUNIE, Researcher on Environmental Law (INSERM) - Laboratoire Population - Environnement - Développement (LPED) - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM).

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