What happens when a philosopher interviews a scientist about their work? On November 22nd, our Director, Jeremy Farrar found out he was interviewed by philosopher AC Grayling and a public audience about our work in a medical research unit in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
Jeremy talked about the Hospital and Unit’s groundbreaking work on a number of emerging infection<\/p>\n
s including Avian influenza and more recently the Influenza pandemic of 2009 and the value of working together with a centre of gravity based firmly in Viet Nam.<\/p>\n
The interview was part of the Exchanges at the Frontier Series<\/a> a partnership between the Wellcome Collection<\/a> the BBC World Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n An edited recording of this event will be broadcast in early 2013 on the BBC World Service to a global audience of 40 million people. We will put a link to the show here on our website after it has been broadcast, so you can tune in at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What happens when a philosopher interviews a scientist about their work? On November 22nd, our Director, Jeremy Farrar found out he was interviewed by philosopher AC Grayling and a public audience about our work in a medical research unit in Southeast Asia. Jeremy talked about the Hospital and Unit’s groundbreaking work on a number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44922,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/44922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}