Public Lectures
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Public Lecture Series has been designed with the objectives:
- To raise the awareness of medical research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
- To provide an opportunity for education on prevention, treatment and cure of specific diseases.
Public Lectures are held throughout the year with approximately four per year.
They provide the general public and others with the latest information and trends in medical research and medicine and access to leading scientists and clinicians. Public Lectures provide an opportunity to tell the stories of our work and the impact of it on people around the world. By opening our doors we are providing a first-hand, memorable experience of how we pursue the mission of the institute - Mastery of Disease Through Discovery.
Public Lectures are held in the Lecture Theatre on Level 7 of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute at 1G Royal Parade, Parkville.
Watch our public lectures online
Next Public Lecture
Blood cancers: advances in research, advances in therapy
2010 lectures
1. Malaria: a global disease - control and eradication
In the institute’s first public lecture for 2010 (14 April 2010) Professor Alan Cowman, Dr James Beeson and Professor Sir Gustav Nossal discussed the global impact malaria has on public health, the new treatments and vaccines that are being developed for this infectious disease and the likelihood of it being eradicated.
Professor Cowman is head of the institute’s Infection and Immunity division and Dr Beeson is a public health clinician and malaria researcher. Professor Nossal was director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute from 1965-1996 and is a consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on its Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.
2009 lectures
4. How will breast stem cells help find new treatments for breast cancer?
3. Discovery of a new drug for coeliac disease ... but maybe more
2. Improving Cancer Treatments
1. Progress towards the prevention and cure of type 1 diabetes