How can we ensure good healthcare and a healthy life for all? How is climate change affecting our health? Ands that will be explored during the Nobel Prize Dialogue on Friday 8 November in Berlin. Five Nobel Laureates will give talks and take part in panel discussions together with other experts and researchers.
The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has joined forces with Nobel Media to organise the first Nobel Prize Dialogue held in Germany. The Nobel Prize Dialogue originated in Sweden, where it has been held since 2012 in the same week as the Nobel Prize awards ceremony. Since then it has been organised in many countries over the world. “Nobel Prize Dialogue provides a global platform for cutting-edge dialogue on issues of great importance for humanity.
At the event in Berlin, we look into the challenges we face within health. Health concerns us all, but to what extent are we responsible for our own health? And who’s responsible for health and well-being on a societal level? For the health of future generations? Those are some of the cross-sector questions we will tackle, together with Nobel Laureates, policy makers, leading scientists and an engaged audience”, says Laura Sprechmann, CEO of Nobel Media. Peter Agre (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2003), Harald zur Hausen (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2008), Tomas Lindahl (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2015), Edvard Moser (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2014) and Alvin Roth (Laureate in Economic Sciences 2012) will participate in the event. Kristie Ebi, the lead author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on warming of 1.5°C, will also speak along with some 15 panellists. The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
During the day, laureate Edvard Moser will be talking about dementia and ageing with Ursula Staudinger, professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University. The question of whether society can afford healthcare will be tackled by Michel Goldman, founder of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Healthcare (I³h), pharmacologist Heyo Kroemer and laureate Alvin Roth. Laureate Peter Agre will shed light on health challenges in low- and middle-income countries in a conversation with Tolu Oni, public health physician scientist and urban epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, and Tikki Pang, visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. A list of speakers is to be found at https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-dialogue/
Facts about Nobel Prize Dialogue, Berlin
Theme: “Towards Health: Equality, Responsibility and Research”
Date and time: Friday 8 November 2019, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, doors open at 9:00 am
Location: Deutsche Telekom’s Representative Office
Friedrichstr. 33 a-c, 10117 Berlin The Nobel Prize Dialogue is part of Berlin Science Week 2019. The event is open to the public and admission is free.
The Nobel Prize Dialogue
The Nobel Prize Dialogue aims to stimulate discussion on a topical science-related theme by bringing together Nobel Laureates, the world’s leading scientists, key opinion leaders, policy makers, different interest groups and the general public, online as well as on-site. Bridging science and society, it is an opportunity to stimulate thinking, excite imagination and inspire greatness. The Nobel Prize Dialogue in Berlin 2019 will be arranged by Nobel Media in cooperation with National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The German partners of the event are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Volkswagen Foundation, as well as the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, which provide non-material support. Nobel Media arranges the Nobel Prize Dialogue with the kind support from Nobel International Partners 3M, ABB, Ericsson, Scania and Volvo Cars. The event will be held in English with simultaneous interpreting into German. The presentations will be live streamed from 10:00am at: www.leopoldina.org