Watch the Hon Michael Kirby and Professor Peter Doherty discuss climate change, human rights, and the role of Science and evidence in solving the most pressing global challenges facing the world today.
When Michael Kirby retired from the High Court of Australia in 2009, he was Australia’s longest serving judge. In addition to his judicial duties, he has served on three university governing bodies, including as Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney. He has served on many national and international bodies, including as a member of the World Health Organisation’s Global Commission on AIDS.
University of Melbourne Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, the Patron and namesake of the Doherty Institute, has been involved in research on infection and immunity for 50 years. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell-mediated immune defence and the biological role of the major histocompatibility complex.
