World Health: Threats and Remedies

Monday 2 April 2001 from 9.30 am to 5.30 pmat Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford

Morning chairman: Lord Walton of Detchant (Patron of OIBC)

9.30 Opening address by Lord Sainsbury of Turville (Minister for Science and Technology)

Poverty

9.45 Julian Lob-Levyt (Head, Population and Health, DFID): Threats

10.30 Terence Ryan (Oxford Centre for Health Care, Brookes U): Remedies

Coffee break

11.45 Presentations from the floor

Epidemics

12.15 David Warrell (Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford U): Threats and Remedies

Lunch

Afternoon chairman: Edith Sim (Head, Dept of Pharmacology, Oxford U)

Drug resistance

2.00 Chris Norbury (Weatherall Inst Mol Med, Oxford U): Cancer cells: threats and remedies

2.45 Mark Fisher (St George's Med Sch, London U): Microbes: threats and remedies

Tea break

4.00 Presentations from the floor

Food

4.30 Chris Leaver (Dept Plant Sciences, Oxford U): Threats and remedies

5.15 - 5.30 General Discussion