Science and Society lecture: Science, Innovation and Society
Start time: 17:30 / End time: 18:30 / Date: 17 Nov 2020 / Venue: Online Open to: Any UOL students / General Public Type: Lecture Cost: Free Contact: For more information contact Events Team at events@liverpool.ac.uk
About the event
This latest Science and Society lecture is brought to you by Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust.
The Wellcome Trust is a politically and financially independent global charitable foundation that exists to improve health by helping big ideas to thrive.
Jeremy is a clinician scientist who before joining Wellcome was, for eighteen years, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam, where his research interests were in infectious diseases and global health with a focus on emerging infections. He was named 12th in the Fortune list of 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in 2015.
Jeremy was appointed OBE in 2005, awarded the Memorial Medal and Ho Chi Minh City Medal from the Government of Viet Nam and honoured by the Royal College of Physicians UK and the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2018 he was awarded the President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences UK, National Academies USA and a Fellow of The Royal Society.
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