Final symposium to the DNA-debat [1]
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 09:30 to 12:00
Description
Sciensano’s cancer center invites you to the online DNA symposium. During that symposium, we ask the question, “How should we deal with DNA in our society?”
This year, on the website www.dnadebat.be [2] everybody got the chance to debate the use of information in our DNA. For example, do people want to know what diseases they could get in the future? And should our employers be allowed to gain insight into our strengths? Is a sports club allowed to use an athlete’s DNA to see if he can become a top athlete?
Watch the video [3]
The conclusions of this debate will be presented at the online DNA Symposium on Thursday, November 19th.
Read more about the use of genomic information in health care (NL) [4]
Programma
| 09:45 — 10:00 | VWelcoming participants and introduction by Christian Léonard (Managing Director of Sciensano) and Marc Van Den Bulcke (Head of the Cancer Centre) |
| 10:00 — 10:35 | Presentation of the qualitative analysis of the citizen forum “My DNA, a story of everyone?” |
| Discussion | |
| 10:35 — 11:50 | Presentation of the DNA debat |
| Award ceremony for the essay contest | |
| Results of the DNA debat | |
| 11:50 — 12:00 | (with reservations) Closing remarks by Ri de Ridder (chief of cabinet of the Minister of Public Health, Frank Vandenbroucke) et Mieke Walraevens (health advisor to the Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo) |
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