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Tuesday 1st July 2014
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updated 9.20pm, Thursday 2nd April 2020
On 15 May, the IFoA was delighted to receive Lord Robert Winston as this year's speaker at the IFoA Spring Lecture. Delegates were taken through what Lord Winston sees as key challenges in public health.
While genomic medicine and analysis of the human make-up has had some impact on managing certain rare diseases, Lord Winston argued that environmental factors and other social conditions can play a bigger part in the development of certain diseases and the increasing prevalence of mental health conditions.
Read more about Lord Robert Winston in a future issue of The Actuary and listen to the lecture online at bit.ly/IFoAspringlecture