Invitation2015 BURNET ORATION DR RICHard Horton Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Writing A Revolution For Health: Planetary Prospects and Possibilities MondaY 5 OCtober 2015 Burnet Institute Chair, Mr Rob Milne DR RICHard Horton and the Director and CEO, Professor Editor-IN-CHieF, THE LANCET Brendan Crabb AC invite you to Dr Richard Horton (BSc, MB, Dr Horton was the first President In 2011 Dr Horton was attend the 2015 Burnet Oration. FRCP, FMedSci) qualified in of the World Association of appointed Co-chair of the UN’s The Oration will be delivered by medicine from the University Medical Editors and is a independent Expert Review Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, of Birmingham in 1986. After Past-President of the US Group on Information and The Lancet. completing general medical Council of Science Editors. Accountability for Women’s and training he moved to the liver Children’s Health, part of whose When: Monday 5 October 2015 unit at the Royal Free Hospital. He is an Honorary Professor remit is to monitor progress at the London School of of the UN Secretary-General’s Time: 6:15pm for 6:30pm start He joined The Lancet as an Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Global Strategy for Women’s Concludes 8:00pm assistant editor in 1990, later University College London, and and Children’s Health. He was Where: ANZ Centre moved to New York to be North the University of Edinburgh. He elected a Foreign Associate of 833 Collins Street American Editor, and returned to is a Fellow of the Royal College the US Institute of Medicine in the UK in 1995 as Editor-in-Chief. of Physicians and a Founder the same year. Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Fellow of the UK’s Academy of RSVP: Friday 25 September 2015 Medical Sciences. burnet.edu.au (03) 9282 2111 or [email protected] Burnet Institute is Australia’s leading medical research and public health organisation focused on achieving Dress: Business attire better health for poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally. .