Integrating into the pleasant atmosphere of the Hue Festival 2012, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy- Hue University has the honor to continue holding the Science Festival 2012 with the theme ‘Community Health: Challenges and Solutions’. It is also an activity to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy and to welcome the Hue Festival 2012. Science Festival 2012 will be held from 11-14/04/2012 with the great stature and abundant contents about science and community. In the program of the Festival, there are many international academicians from Italy, England, Japan, France and so on. In the opening session, audiences will listen to scientific, topical reports about topics such as stem cell, metabolism syndrome, the role of biomedicine to the life, care for chronic diseases…The exchanges among audience members and scientists on current emergent problems in the community will be held with the participation of scientists and experts from WHO, Sassari University, QUT university (Australia), Queensland Technology University-Australia, National Committee of Traffic Safety… Examples of sessions include ‘The community day on hepatitis B’, ‘Screening cervical cancer’ and ‘Alcohol and traffic accidents’. The Science Festival is a bridge that links science to the community, helps scientists to listen to the community and to communicate achievements and information to the community understandably.
There is no charge for coming to the Science Festival. In addition, audiences will participate in some games, quizzes and be counseled and tested for some health problems.
Besides the official activities in the Science Festival 2012, there are also some activities pre-festival such as ‘The conference on Emergency Medicine’, ‘The conference on digestion and endoscopy’ with experts from Japan and France. There will be fringe activities (additional activities) such as the PhD students conference with reports of professors and graduate students from Italy, Australia and Thailand, the exhibition of a photos competition entitled ‘The heritage city and environment’, an exhibition of the achievements of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy and University Hospital. Furthermore, there are many such other activities as artistic performances and English quizzes. The Science Festival is a real chance to enhance approaches and to understand scientific fields serving the community. Apart from festival events, the second Science Festival features advanced scientific information. Certainly, it contributes to making Hue Festival a prestigious event that is accessible to everybody.