00.00, Monday 07 April 2014
The Academy's annual International Health Lecture provides a platform for leaders in global health to discuss topics of international significance – promoting debate, discussion and the exchange of ideas on current research.
Dr Trevor Mundel is President of the Gates Foundation Global Health Program. He leads the Foundation’s efforts in research and development of health solutions including vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics, focusing on health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. He oversees the Global Health Program’s work which harnesses innovations in science and technology, to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Dr Mundel’s professional background is in healthcare. He earned his Bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also studied mathematics, logic and philosophy at Balliol College, University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his PhD in mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Dr Mundel delivered a lecture entitled 'A scientist, an engineer, and a banker walk into a pub...the not-so-funny truth about innovation in global health' on Monday 7 April 2014.
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