Professor Sarah Gilbert (University of Oxford) presenting the 2024 UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences on 'Vaccine development during and after the pandemic.' About Professor Sarah Gilbert, DBE, FRS, FMedSci Sarah Gilbert is a Professor of Vaccinology in the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University. She works on viral vectored vaccine development, with projects on influenza, Nipah, MERS, and Lassa. Working with colleagues on the Old Road Campus in Oxford, she is able to take novel vaccines from design through GMP manufacturing to clinical development, with a particular interest in the rapid transfer of vaccines into GMP manufacturing and first in human trials. She was the Oxford Project Leader for ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, also known as Vaxevria/Covishield, which was estimated to have saved 6.3 million lives in its first year of use.

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12/12/2024

Every year on 1st December, we mark World AIDS Day to show solidarity in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and to remember those who have sadly lost their lives. Since the start of the global AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, researchers have made enormous progress towards preventing HIV transmission, and treating those who are living with HIV so that the virus remains suppressed. But while there have been marked improvements for adults, treatment coverage in children and adolescents is lagging behind. In the first of our World AIDS Day episodes, Dr Anna Turkova, Clinical Principal Research Fellow at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, and Philippa Musoke, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University, explore the reasons for these disparities and how the MRC CTU at UCL is working to close the gap between adults and children through clinical trials.

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11/30/2023

Peter Snow is a lecturer working in rehabilitation engineering using virtual reality and robotics. He develops systems to help people with phantom limb pain and other conditions. He is also using gaming software to create training tools for surgeons, allowing them to practice complicated procedures in a safe environment.

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10/26/2023

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 13: Stabilising the global population: Where next for the Millennium Development Goals for health and nutrition? In many poor countries the Millennium Development Goals for improvements in nutrition and health, especially of mothers and children, will not be met by the target date of 2015. This talk will review progress towards these targets and consider critical obstacles to success. New strategies will be considered to improve nutrition and to accelerate reductions in death and fertility rates so that the global population will be stabilised by mid-century. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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9/29/2023

Keynote panel discussion. Lisa Boivin (member of the Deninu Kue First Nation, interdisciplinary artist and scholar at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine); Sarah de Leeuw (Canada Research Chair (Humanities and Health Inequities), poet and professor with University of British Columbia’s Northern Medical Program); Margo Greenwood (Cree scholar and Scientific Director of National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH) and Institute for Indigenous Peoples’ Health with the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)); Kung Jaadee (Haida storyteller and author); Margot Parkes (former physician, former Canada Research Chair in Health, Ecosystems and Society, now co-leads the Environment, Community, Health Observatory (ECHO) Network out of Lheidli T’enneh territory)

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9/15/2023

Olwenn Martin (scholar in environmental health and decision-making, lead for the Health and Environment pathway of the BASc UCL); Jennifer Cole (Biological Anthropologist, RHUL and co-chair of the Planetary Health Alliance European Hub Working Group); Enrique Castro-Sanchez (Clinician; Planetary Health Educator (Brunel University London)). Part of the AMH Conference 2023

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9/15/2023

Keynote lecture with Prof Julian Ma (Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology. Director of the Institute for Infection and Immunity at St George’s, University of London). Part of the AMH Conference 2023

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9/15/2023

Chair: Dr Rochelle Burgess (Associate Professor in Global Health, Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, at the Institute for Global Health at UCL and Director of UCL’s Global Network on Mental Health); Dr Sarah Fortais (Visual Artist); Dr Harold Offeh (Visual Artist). Part of the AMH Conference 2023

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9/15/2023