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7 March 2012: Global health in the 21st Century

Can societies strike a balance between combating the dangers of viral outbreaks and pandemics, while maintaining the hopes of eradicating established diseases, such as malaria, which continue to claim millions of lives each year?

Join our expert international panel to explore this issue and put your questions to them.

Discussion will be chaired by FERGUS WALSH, BBC Medical Correspondent.

DR W IAN LIPKIN

Director of The Centre for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University. He is internationally renowned as a ‘microbe hunter’,who has worked as advisor on films such as Steven Soderbergh's Contagion.

PROFESSOR PETER PIOT
Founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is currently Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

DR MARIE CHARLES
Widely regarded as one of the key innovators in global healthcare. Founder of Global Medic Force, a non-profit global leader that engages healthcare professionals to rapidly transfer their expertise on HIV care and infectious diseases to emerging nations.

A limited number of free tickets are available to RGS-IBG Schools Members (limited to five per school). Further tickets can be purchased at £7 members rate.

To book please call our events team on 020 7591 3100.