Professor Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, will give a lecture on Friday entitled 'Surviving Disease' as part of the Darwin Lecture Series.

Professor Feachem will discuss the nature of determinants of global pandemics, past, present and future. He will comment on some of the lessons learned from HIV/AIDS in relation to preparedness for avian flu, as well as the need for enhanced multinational mechanisms to deal with existing and future global pandemics.

Professsor Feachem will also highlight how all nations now face a major challenge from global pandemics for which they are unprepared: "We were unprepared for HIV-AIDS and we have responded very slowly. At the moment, we are seriously unprepared for a major avian flu pandemic."

Richard Feachem is Professor of International Health at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and the founding Director of the Institute for Global Health.

The lecture will be held on Friday 10 February at 5.30 pm in The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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