UCL Prize Lecture: Dr Anthony Fauci

Dr Anthony Fauci, former Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gives the 2026 UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences at the Bloomsbury Theatre, with a free livestream for anyone who cannot be there in person.

His lecture, Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases: Science, Public Health, and Policy, looks at why new infections emerge, how outbreaks have been brought under control, and what research and policy have achieved along the way. He will draw on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, Mpox, chikungunya, Oropouche and Zika, and on decades of advising seven US presidents.

Dr Fauci led NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and served as Chief Medical Advisor to the President from 2021 to 2022. He is now Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy.

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The UCL Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences has been awarded annually since 1997. This year’s lecture is supported by Dr Sanjeev Kanoria, Chairman and Founder of Advinia Health Care.

Booking

The lecture is open to current UCL students, staff and alumni, who are asked to book with their UCL email address. In-person tickets (£5, including a complimentary drink) have sold out, but a waiting list is available through the Bloomsbury Theatre box office, and complimentary tickets can be requested if cost is a barrier. The livestream is free.

The lecture starts at 5:30pm and runs for about an hour and a half with no interval. Access ticket information is on the Bloomsbury Theatre’s accessibility pages.

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