Screening and panel discussion with the WHO Academy in Lyon, IARC and the Universal Health Coverage Partnership conference on the theme of health education with film sequences for better access to quality care and prevention.

Can a film sequence influence our behaviors to better combat antimicrobial resistance during treatment? Can it promote more holistic management of mental health? Or help general practitioners and their patients to better integrate social or cultural determinants into their approach to health?

These three themes and a few more will be addressed by the short films screened on December 13 in Lyon in the auditorium of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), on the occasion of the Global Health Festival organized by the French authorities in honor of the opening of the WHO Academy.

This screening will inspire a debate on health education through film, between high-level experts at the WHO and the audience composed of WHO representatives in various French-speaking countries and a public based in Lyon composed of health professionals and students in public health, social sciences and cinema.
 

Speakers include: 
 

• Dr David Atchoarena, Executive director of the WHO Academy which will be inaugurated in Lyon the following week
   
• Dr Jérôme Salomon, Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases 
   
• Dr Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer where this session will take place

A trophy will be awarded to Elisa Tiozzo, a young French director who won the Student Film Prize at our Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) in 2024. Elisa is the author of an animated film that she made when she was a student at the Emile Cohl School in Lyon. Her film deals with a scene from everyday life between a woman with cancer and her young daughter. The panel discussion will focus, among other things, on the potential impact of this film: how to support the loved ones of a patient so that they can better cope with the treatment and its consequences?

Other short films selected by the WHO Health For All Film Festival will also be shown during this session:

• "4000 meters above pain", a reportage by Christophe Blot and Thibaut Ras produced by the Georges Boissel Foundation on the subject of an innovation in a mental health care process highlighting physical activity and even a sporting challenge!
   
• "Theory versus Reality", an audiovisual testimony by Doctor Nanethida Nouanesengsy of the therapeutic education association Asalée Polynésie. This testimony full of humor and gravity shows the importance for general practitioners to take into account the cultural and social determinants of health during their consultations with patients.
   

How to participate?
 

Attention: Limited number of places! Reservation essential (https://events.iarc.who.int/event/102/) 

Films in French and English. Discussion in French without English interpretation.

Reception in the IARC building from 5:30 p.m. to obtain an entry badge upon presentation of an identity document and based on reservations made by email to filmfestival@who.int

25, avenue Tony Garrnier – Lyon 7e – Métro Stade de Gerland Le Lou

Each reservation is individual and must be confirmed by return email to be presented at the reception.

Please put “HAFF Lyon Session” in the subject line of the email and specify in the message your institution, name, first name, profession, email address and telephone number.

The auditorium opens at 6 p.m. and the session begins at 6:30 p.m. sharp.

After the session, an informal discussion from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. will be possible for participants who wish to participate.

Live broadcast in French on the WHO Youtube channel from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. CET