A Life In Health: in conversation with Dame Sally Davies

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Channel: The Royal Society · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Professor Dame Sally Davies FRS talked to Vivienne Parry about her career-long commitment to improving health, healthcare and medical research.

The chief medical officer spearheaded the creation of the National Institute for Health Research. She was awarded a DBE for services to medicine in 2009 and named the sixth most powerful woman in the UK by BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Filmed: 6.30pm - 8pm on Tuesday 22 April 2016 at The Royal Society, London.
https://royalsociety.org/events/2016/04/a-life-in-health/

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