Dr Richard Horton presents the Institute for Global Health’s first Global Health Lecture titled ‘The decrees of Fate: Field notes from the fraught lines of global health science and journalism’ as part of the Annual Scientific Meeting & Global Health Days programme. The lecture will be 30 minutes long followed by a 15 minute Q & A session. Professor Peter Piot will be the Chair.
Biography:
In 1995 Dr Richard Horton became Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. He was the first President of the World Association of Medical Editors, and is presently a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. He currently chairs the Royal College of Physicians’ Working Party on Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry; co-chairs a WHO Scientific Advisory Group on Clinical Trials Registration; is a Council Member of the Global Forum for Health Research; is a Board Member of the Health Metrics Network; sits on the External Reference Group for WHO’s Research Strategy; and is an External Advisory Board Member for the WHO European Region.
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The Lancet won the UK’s Medical Publication of the Year and, in 2007, he received the Edinburgh Medal for professional achievements judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding of human health and wellbeing. In 2008, he was appointed a Senior Associate of The Nuffield Trust, a think tank for research and policy studies in health services. He has a strong interest in issues of global health. He has been a medical columnist for The Observer and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and New York Review of Books.
He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Founder Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences. He has wriiten a number of publications concerning global health, includng controversies in modern medicine, ‘Second Opinion’, which was published in 2003 (Health Wars in the US). He also wrote the Royal College of Physicians report on medical professionalism, “Doctors in Society” (2005).
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