The International Scene

on Monday 30 April 1998 from 9.30am to 5.30pm at Worcester College, Oxford

§ Chairman: Lord Walton of Detchant (Patron of OIBC).

§ Dr Charles Pasternak (Director of OIBC): Welcome

§ HRH The Princess Chulabhorn (President of Chulabhorn Research Institute) speech read by Dr Mathuros Ruchirawat: The Chulabhorn Research Institute and International Cooperation in Bioscience for South East Asian Countries

§ Sir Robert May (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government): The UK Science Base and Medical Research

§ Maurizio Iaccarino (Assistant Director-General for Science UNESCO): UNESCO's Programmes on the Biomedical Sciences

§ Dr Brian Heap (Foreign Secretary and Vice President of The Royal Society): The Royal Society's Role in International Science

§ Sir Richard Sykes (Chairman of GlaxoWellcome; Patron of OIBC): Improving Healthcare in Developing Countries

§ Chairman: Sir Philip Randle (Patron of OIBC)

§ Sir David Weatherall (Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford U): Genetic Disease in the Developing World

§ Dr Terence Ryan (School of Healthcare, Oxford): Eliminating malaria

§ Sir John Maddox (Editor Emeritus of Nature; Trustee of OIBC): The case for High-tech in Developing Countries

§ Baroness Brigstocke (Chairman of the English Speaking Union): Better communications for International Understanding

§ Summing-up and General Discussion