Life Sciences and Urbanization Track
BioVision 2009 is dedicated to the contribution of Life Sciences and its associated technologies to sustainable urban development.
The program will include the following sessions:
MANAGING URBAN EPIDEMICS
Co-organized with WHO & Lyonbiopole
1. BioCrises
Managing public health emergencies in the megacities
2. Infectious Diseases
Low and high resource cities compare their plans to combat infection?
FEEDING THE CITY
1. Food for all?
Which paradigms can better ensure sustainable urban food supplies in low resource cities? Local food production, improvement of vernacular crops, transportation, transformation and conservation are some of the key questions to address.
2. Obesity: an Urban Disease?
Focus on the impact of urban life on obesity
BIOFUELS FOR THE CITY
Co-organised with the EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research.
Beyond vehicles, how will biofuels be used in the city?
CITIES WITHOUT ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
1. Sustainable Waste Management
Economic and urban development generates additional waste, which solutions can reduce waste
production?
How to implement sustainable waste management principles in low resource countries?
2. Sustainable Cities
Can current sustainable city experiments be translated into real world implementation?
WATER IN THE CITY
1. Supply
Getting water to 1 billion people has to happen, how and when?
2. Sanitation
Sanitation, for even more people, has to happen too.
AIR WE CAN BREATHE
Are there Life Sciences solutions to air pollution?
CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON LIFE IN THE CITY
An interview of a major specialist on the contribution of Life Sciences to the fight against climate change.
HEALTH SYSTEMS: NATIONAL ISSUE, URBAN SOLUTIONS
What technology can make healthcare more efficient in an urban environment?
URBANIZATION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Which therapeutic alternatives and horizons are opened by scientific progress?
AGING IN THE BIG CITY
The challenge of managing health for senior citizens.
WHAT DO MAYORS EXPECT FROM LIFE SCIENCES
What do your citizens consider a healthy city?
A high level panel with mayors of megacities opening the conference with geographic diversity.
DECISION-MAKERS, OVER TO YOU...
A high level panel of policymakers and businesspeople sharing their reactions to selected solutions presented during BioVision 2009.
See the Advances in Life Sciences Track
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