RSTMH President's Lecture and Reception 2023

The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London

RSTMH members and Fellows were invited to join Simon Bush and the RSTMH team for the President's Lecture and Reception in London.

This meeting was a great opportunity to hear an interesting talk from Lord Nigel Crisp, and catch up with others while enjoying some drinks and nibbles.

Lord Nigel Crisp, as nominated by our President, Simon Bush, will delivered the annual President's Lecture. The topic of Lord Crisp's talk was 'Turning the world upside down again - global health in a time of pandemics, climate change and political turmoil'.

In this lecture, Lord Nigel Crisp surveyed the biggest issues in global health today and proposed a new more ecological way of thinking about health that recognises the way that our health as individuals is intimately connected with the health of our communities, the health of wider societies and the health of the planet and which builds on our capacity to adapt and respond to external changes. 

He also provided new ideas and examples of how the wealthy countries of the world can learn a great deal about health from lower income countries - a theme he first explored in Turning the World Upside Down published in 2010 - and how professionals in every country can learn from their own low income communities. Combining the learning from all parts of all countries will help us improve globally.

Programme

Registration

The event was free for members and Fellows to attend. However, if you wish to make a donation to help cover our costs there are several options when registering for an event. RSTMH is a charity and so any support you can offer towards the cost of an event is much appreciated.

You are welcome to bring a plus one for a fee of £30.

Biography: Lord Nigel Crisp

Lord Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords in the UK and works and writes mainly on global health. 

He was Chief Executive of the English NHS and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health, from 2000 to 2006.  He had previously been Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, one of the UK’s leading academic centres, and Regional Director for the NHS in London. His earlier career was in industry and charities. 

He has subsequently worked in health globally, mainly pro-bono in low- and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia.

Nigel Crisp founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health and the global campaign on nursing, Nursing Now, both of which he co-chaired. 

He is an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Medicine. He was formerly a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and Regent’s Lecturer at Berkeley.

His books include Health is Made at Home, Hospitals are for Repairs – Building a Healthy and Health-Creating Society and Turning the World Upside Down Again – global health at a time of pandemics, climate change and political turmoil