2022 Annual Hawke Lecture - The Complexities of Science Based Policy...life in the time of COVID
Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC
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23RD ANNUAL HAWKE LECTURE
NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR PETER DOHERTY AC
THE COMPLEXITIES OF SCIENCE BASED POLICY...LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID
Thursday 2 June 2022, 6pm
Adelaide Town Hall, 128 King William Street MAP
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
Transcript of the 23rd Annual Hawke Lecture
There are relatively few moments when we have the time to consider the larger issues of life, including the future of our nation and our world, and how we can shape it.
The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre offers the Annual Hawke Lecture in this spirit, as an opportunity to listen to the views of someone whose experience of human affairs is notable, and whose concerns about our world are truly worthy of consideration.
To this end, we are proud to present Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC, discussing the role of medical research and science based policy making during a pandemic.
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, citizens and governments around the world suddenly became acutely dependent on the capacity of scientists to understand and recommend appropriate public health policy responses to the disease.
Professor Peter Doherty provides a fascinating glimpse into how health experts have worked with governments to control and manage the challenge. He also turns his mind to what we can hope for in the months and years ahead, considering even larger questions about the pivotal role of science in our lives.
NOBEL LAUREATE PROFESSOR PETER DOHERTY AC
IMMUNOLOGIST, PATHOLOGIST, AUTHOR &
PATRON, THE PETER DOHERTY INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Professor Peter Doherty is an Australian immunologist and pathologist who, with Rolf Zinkernagel of Switzerland, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for their discovery of how the body’s immune system distinguishes virus-infected cells from normal cells. After leading a research group at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania (1975–82), Peter headed the department of experimental pathology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra (1982–88) and served as chairman (1988–2001) of the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he still holds the Michael F Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research. In 2002, he joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, and from 2014, has been at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, a joint venture between the university and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Peter is the author of many books, including The Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science (2005), Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us About Our Health and the World (2012) The Knowledge Wars (2015), The Incidental Tourist (2018) and most recently An Insider’s Plague Year (2021).
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity: website
Twitter: @ProfPCDoherty
Nobel prize winner Peter Doherty on navigating COVID-19 and life in lockdown
Articles, The Conversation
BOOK: AN INSIDER'S PLAGUE YEAR
In An Insider’s Plague Year, Professor Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020 – February 2021. As citizens and governments around the world suddenly became acutely dependent on the capacity of scientists to understand and recommend appropriate public health policy responses to the disease, Doherty and his team were at the forefront.
In his always conversational style, Doherty systematically provides a deep understanding of the virus and of the numerous areas of knowledge that have been brought together in the fight against it. Rendering complex medical and scientific issues accessible and providing a fascinating glimpse into how health experts have worked with governments to control and manage the challenge, Doherty also turns his mind to what we can hope for in the months and years ahead, considering even larger questions about the pivotal role of science in our lives.
Books will be for sale in the foyer pre and post lecture.
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
While the views presented by speakers within The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia, or The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: Strengthening our Democracy - Valuing our Diversity - Building our Future. The Hawke Centre reserves the right to change their program at any time without notice.
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While the views presented by speakers within The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre public program are their own and are not necessarily those of either the University of South Australia, or The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, they are presented in the interest of open debate and discussion in the community and reflect our themes of: Strengthening our Democracy - Valuing our Diversity - Building our Future. The Hawke Centre reserves the right to change their program at any time without notice.
