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The UCL-Lancet Lecture is a prestigious annual public lecture held at UCL and has been jointly organised by UCL and the Lancet since 2001.
A successful 2024 UCL-Lancet Lecture
Professor Linda Villarosa
Thank you to everyone that attended the UCL-Lancet Lecture in April 2024.
This year, Professor Linda Villarosa, award winning journalist and author, discussed her work on the societal forces that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts.
Catch-up with previous Lectures
Muhammad Ali Pate
UCL-Lancet Lecture 2022
Muhammad Ali Pate is currently the Global Director, Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice of the World Bank and the Director of Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF). Muhammad Ali Pate speaks on Global Health Preparedness in the Face of Emerging Epidemics.
Dr Rachel Nugent
UCL-Lancet Lecture 2019
More than 70% of global health deaths are caused by NCDs (Noncommunicable diseases) which have been estimated to impose a $47 trillion burden on developing country GDP by 2030. Like pandemics, NCDs are usually preventable. Like climate change, NCDs require a multi-sectoral response. Like both, NCDs are largely a human-caused problem. It is clear that without dramatic new intervention the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target to reduce premature NCD mortality by one-third by 2030 will fail. This lecture claims that NCDs are a solvable problem and describes plausible scenarios for reversing NCD burden and achieving health and economic gains. It should be feasible for every country in the world to conquer NCDs in an ethical, sustainable and affordable manner.
Mrs Lilianne Ploumen
UCL-Lancet Lecture 2017
Dutch MP and Former Development Cooperation Minister, Mrs Lilianne Ploument, speaks on sexual and reproductive health, in particular how she came to create the "She Decides" international initiative as a response to President Trump's reinstatement of the "global gag rule" (aka Mexico City policy), which severely limits US aid funding for sexual and reproductive health in some of the world's poorest countries.
Ms Christiana Figueres
UCL-Lancet Lecture 2016
Action on climate change for a healthier world – putting the Paris Agreement into practice. Ms Christiana Figueres is the Former Executive Secretary of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The 2015 Paris agreement on climate change was an historic step for the world in tackling the biggest global threat facing the 21st century. At the 2016 UCL-Lancet lecture, former UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, the senior official responsible for steering the Paris Agreement to a successful conclusion, will speak on health and climate change and the opportunity for the Agreement to improve global health.
Previous UCL-Lancet lectures
2015 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Ms Amina J. Mohammed
2014 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Ms Arundhati Roy
2013 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Dr Agnes Binagwaho
2012 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Mr Michel Sidibé
2011UCL-Lancet Lecture: Professor Jayati Ghosh
2010 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Ms Helen Clark
2009 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Professor Lord May
2008 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Professor Michel Kazatchkine
2007 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Professor Adenike Grange
2006 UCL-Lancet Lecture: Mr Jens Stoltenberg