UCL-Lancet Lecture 2024: Professor Linda Villarosa

Co-hosted by the UCL Institute for Global Health, UCL Grand Challenges and The Lancet, this exciting event will see author, educator and journalist Professor Linda Villarosa (Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University), discussing her work on the societal forces that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts.  

Villarosa will connect the ways in which Black lives are far too often shaped by illness and suffering related to a range of factors: medical ignorance and discrimination, environmental racism and government neglect.  

Programme:

16:30 – Open registration desk

17:30 – Welcome, Opening Remarks & Introduction of Chair (Dr Michael Spence, UCL President & Provost)

17:35 – Meeting Chair (Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet)

17:40 – Keynote Lecture (Professor Linda Villarosa)

18:40 – Response (Professor Delan Devakumar and Dr Rochelle Burgess)

18:50 – Audience Q&A (moderated by Dr Richard Horton)

19:20 – Closing Remarks (Professor Shabbar Jaffar, UCL Institute for Global Health Director and Sam Balch, UCL Grand Challenges Director)