In 2023 we challenged our Fellowship, students past and present, and the wider Pembroke community to tell us about The Future of Health. Over the course of twelve months we heard from those working in the NHS about a healthcare service on its knees, about the economic risks that countries with ageing populations face, and about unsettling levels of health inequity faced by different people predicated on where they were born, their class, and their age.
We also heard of stories of hope, of revolutionary advances in early detection and treatment, and disruptive technologies solving perennial problems.
You can read all the blogs from 2023 below:
January - Lord Chris Smith, Master of Pembroke, introduces our new annual theme and asks what the Future of Health might hold
February - Anushka Irodi (2020), third-year medical student at Pembroke, gives us a double dose of optimism for the future of health and stark realities for the future of the NHS
March - Prof. Stephen John, Hatton Professor in the Philosophy of Public Health, suggests that 'personalised medicine' could be the death knell for social medicine
April - Prof. Ashok Venkitaraman, Director of the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, says we are on the verge of a breakthrough in personalised cancer prevention
May - Dr Rebecca Jones, Head of Cancer, Ageing and Data at the Office for Life Sciences (DSIT/DHSC) tells us about how her CSaP Fellowship informs policy
June - Dr Samantha Deacon (2004), Programme Manager of the impulse Programme, writes about how revolutionary research in Medicine can be developed for the real-world, and the role of entrepreneurs in this process.
July - Natasza Siwinka (2020), recent Pembroke graduate and former Junior Parlour Access Officer, shares her experience of participating in the annual William Pitt Virtual Roundtable and offers some thoughts on the social responsibility of business.
August - Dr Lorenzo Di Michele, Assistant Professor in Biotechnology, tells us about the work that his DiMicheleLAB have been doing in synthetic cell development
September - Dr Rav Seeruthun, William Pitt Fellow and Founder of health-equity.ai, tells us about the work that his latest venture has been undertaking in the fight against health inequality
October - Dr Julia Bird (2005), William Pitt Seminar speaker and alumna, explains how an ageing population will affect the economy, what is at stake, and what can be done.
November - Prof. Sultan Mahmud, Director of Healthcare at BT Group, who looks at the intertwined histories of BT and the NHS, and how BT is helping the NHS to be resilient to the technological challenges of the future.
December - Matthew Mellor, Director of Development at Pembroke College, offers some reflections on the year, this blog series, and teases soem of the concepts for our new theme.
