Media release

From: The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society

WHAT:

• Join Dr Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US, for the Inaugural David Cooper Lecture on 14 April at 6.30pm.
• While the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating in the USA, Dr Anthony S. Fauci has remained a voice of authority and reason, bringing scientific evidence to the fore.
• Throughout an extraordinary career as a scientist, a physician and a public servant, he has been an adviser to seven US presidents on HIV/AIDS, and domestic and global health issues. A key figure in the global response to HIV/AIDS, his experience of this epidemic has informed his career ever since.
• As the world struggles to emerge from COVID-19, Dr Fauci will discuss the past, the present and the future – from what we learned from the HIV/AIDS epidemic to what the ongoing impact of COVID-19 will be.
• The conversation marks the inaugural David Cooper Lecture, which honours the legacy of the Kirby Institute’s Founding Director, Professor David Cooper AC, who passed away in 2018. He was an internationally renowned scientist and HIV clinician who laid the foundations for Australia’s ongoing global leadership in the fight against the global HIV epidemic.
• Media are encouraged to attend the lecture free of charge

WHO:

• Professors Vlado Perkovic (Dean of UNSW Medicine & Health) and Tony Kelleher (Director of the Kirby Institute) are available for interviews before and after the lecture.

WHEN:

• Wednesday 14 April 2021, 6.30-7.30pm AEST
• Online, register now.

Questions can be submitted through the event registration form.