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HELICON - BRAIN-be project – Closing meeting [1]

Date: 
Monday, December 15, 2025 - 09:30 to 14:00

Event type: 
open meeting
Spoken language(s): 
English
Audience: 
general public
health professionals
journalist
PhD students
policy makers
representatives of care and professional organisations
scientists
university staff

Description

We are happy to invite you to the final event of the Belspo-funded HELICON — BRAIN-be project, aiming to develop policy-relevant tools to monitor and mitigate environmental health inequalities in Belgium.

  • Sciensano - HELICON [2]
  • Helicon - BRAIN-be [3]

Preliminary programme

9.30: Word of welcome - Brecht Devleesschauwer

9.40: Opening presentation by Belspo - Naji Aziz

10.00: Social health inequalities in the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term direct health impacts - Lisa Cavillot

10.15: The indirect health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-COVID diseases in Belgium - Yasmine Khan

10.30: Socio-economic and sociodemographic factors of COVID-19: From evidence to policy - Jinane Ghattas

10.45: Q&A

11.00: COVID in historical context - Isabelle Devos

11.20: Break

11.40: Pandemic preparedness (BE-PIN) - Niel Hens

12.00: Pandemic preparedness - Marius Gilbert

12.20: Panel Discussion - Laura Van den Borre, Leila Belkhir, Marius Gilbert, Niel Hens

13.00: Lunch

14.00: End of the meeting

Registration

Register here [4]

Access

PDF icon access_helicon_closing_meeting.pdf [5]

Contact

Contact our team [6]

This event contributes to Sciensano's activities in the field of: 
Health and disease monitoring
Health and environment

Address

Room Storck (Eurostation building)
Rue Ernest Blérot 1
1070 Brussels
Belgium

Price

Free but registration required

Source URL:https://sciensano.be/en/events/helicon-brain-be-project-closing-meeting

Links
[1] https://sciensano.be/en/events/helicon-brain-be-project-closing-meeting [2] https://sciensano.be/en/projects/unravelling-long-term-and-indirect-health-impact-covid-19-crisis-belgium [3] https://www.brain-helicon.be/ [4] https://surveys.sciensano.be/index.php/395612?newtest=Y&lang=en [5] https://sciensano.be/sites/default/files/access_helicon_closing_meeting.pdf [6] https://sciensano.be/en/healthinformation%40sciensano.be