Global poverty: is the end in sight?
Announcement posted by Data61 29 Apr 2013
Media Release
29 April 2013
Global poverty: is the end in sight?
Find out at tonight’s Graeme Clark Oration
NICTA welcomes Geoffrey Lamb, the President of Global Policy and Advocacy for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to the Melbourne Convention Centre this evening, where he will deliver the 2013 Graeme Clark Oration. NICTA is the major sponsor of this free public event.
The oration - Global Health, Economic Growth and the End of Absolute Poverty: Hopeful Evidence and Hard Challenges - will review the successes of the past half century in reducing mortality and disease and show how investments in health have been critical for economic growth and the reduction of global poverty. Mr Lamb will also discuss what needs to be done to ensure the next transformation in global health, and make the end of absolute poverty attainable.
“The Graeme Clark Oration showcases the multi-disciplinary nature of today’s life sciences research, especially the growing importance of information and communications technology (ICT) to scientific discovery,” says Prof. Hugh Durrant-Whyte, NICTA’s CEO. “As Australia’s Centre of Excellence in ICT research, it is with great pleasure that NICTA welcomes Mr Lamb as the 2013 Graeme Clark orator.”
NICTA has supported the Graeme Clark Oration since it began in 2008. As an initiative of the successful ICT4Life Sciences Forum, of which NICTA is also a founding sponsor, the Graeme Clark Oration has become a landmark event in Victoria’s life sciences calendar. http://ict4lifesciences.org.au/ Last year’s Oration, delivered by Professor Dame Linda Partridge attracted over 1,000 guests.
Date: Monday 29 April 2013
Place: Melbourne Convention Centre
South Wharf
Melbourne
Time: 5.30PM for 6.15PM start
Graeme Clark Oration sponsors
NICTA, Victorian State Government, Club Melbourne, The University of Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Qantas, Cosmos Magazine, Melbourne Health, Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology, The University of Melbourne Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation, Bionic Vision Australia, Australian Synchrotron, BioMelbourne Network, Deakin University Australia, University of Ballarat, Florey Neuroscience Institutes.
About ICT for Life Sciences Forum
The ICT for Life Sciences Forum is a network connecting researchers in Melbourne interested in the convergence between biology, computing and engineering. The Forum’s annual showcase event - the Graeme Clark Oration - is held in honour of the achievements of Professor Graeme Clark, A.O., who developed the first multi-channel cochlear implant in Melbourne in the mid 1970s.
About NICTA
National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA), Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, is developing technologies which will meet the current and future needs of the community in fields which will lead to large economic, social and environmental benefits for Australia. NICTA has five laboratories around the country. Since NICTA was founded in 2002, it has created five new companies, developed a substantial technology and intellectual property portfolio and continues to supply new talent to the ICT industry through the NICTA-enhanced PhD program.
NICTA is funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program. In addition to federal funding NICTA is also funded and supported by the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian Governments, The Australian National University, Griffith University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and The University of Sydney.
For further information:
Dorothy Kennedy
Communications Specialist, NICTA
Ph: 02 9376 2098 or 0488 229 687