Presentations

In this lecture on 8th October, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Co-Chair of the South African COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee, and Dr Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s State Epidemiologist, in conversation with Mia Malan, Editor-in-chief at Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, explore the meaning of science; its promise, ethos and method; the sociology of science; the interplay between the social context and scientific knowledge; and the actual search for a cure.