CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, the Agency Ciência Viva and the Hall of Biodiversity – Ciência Viva Center/ Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP) are organizing the meeting “Ciência, Saúde e Comunicação” (Science, Health and Communication) that will take place on November 24, National Day of Scientific Culture, in Porto.
The initiative is mainly addressed to researchers in the field of communication and media, to journalists and other communication professionals, and to scientists and students from other fields of knowledge. The aim is to debate about the communication of science and health-related topics in social media and within society.
The Library Almeida Garrett will be the stage of the opening session in which the CINTESIS coordinator, Altamiro da Costa Pereira, and the president of the Agency Ciência Viva, Rosalia Vargas will be present, together with representatives of the University of Porto and the City’s Municipal Council.
Throughout the morning, several scientists from different research centers and national educational institutions, along with journalists and media professionals, will debate the Communication of Science in Society and the Health Communication in the media. José Vítor Malheiros, Science Communication Advisor, and Vasco Ribeiro, researcher at CINTESIS and professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto will moderate this session.
In the afternoon, the meeting will move to the Hall of Biodiversity – Ciência Viva Center, at the Casa Andresen, for a public debate on “Science and Pseudoscience in Health Communication”, with interventions already confirmed by Carlos Fiolhais from the Rómulo Carvalho Ciência Viva Center / University of Coimbra, Felisbela Lopes, from the University of Minho, and Diana Barbosa from COMCEPT – Comunidade Cética Portuguesa (Skeptical Community of Portugal), among others.
Starting at 4:00 p.m., CINTESIS joins the Ciência Viva Montepio Awards ceremony, organized by the Agency Ciência Viva, with the participation of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor.
This year, three awards are granted. The Ciência Viva Montepio Grand Prize awarded to a merit intervention in the scientific and technological dissemination in Portugal. The Ciência Viva Montepio Education Award recognizes a project of scientific education and promotion of scientific and technological culture carried out in Portuguese Schools: and lastly, the Ciência Viva Montepio Media Award given to an outstanding work in the dissemination of science and technology in a Portuguese media.
The meeting “Science, Health and Communication” is part of the celebrations organized for the Week of Science and Technology 2017, which will take place between November 20 to 26 all over the country, and it aims to promote our scientists and the result of their research.
Participants can register at: https://goo.gl/pTGtqc.