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October 14, 2005
International Health and Medical Education Centre/Lancet Lecture 2005: 'Progress in the Study of Well-Being'
Location: London, UK
Date: 14 October 2005
Lecture: 6-7.30pm, Logan Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL
Reception: 7.45-9pm, Jeffrey Hall, Institute of Education
RSVP: devtemp1@adm.ucl.ac.uk
This year the annual IHMEC/Lancet lecture will be given by Professor Daniel Kahneman.
An interdisciplinary conversation has been held for several decades, concerning the nature of well-being, approaches to its measurement, its relation to health and its distribution across social classes and over continents. The pace of this conversation has picked up considerably in recent years and its main character has changed as economists joined it. The lecture will present a view of the main issues that are currently debated and describe some recent developments in the measurement of well-being and misery.
Following the lecture there will be a discussion between Professor Kahneman and Dr Richard Horton, Editor of the Lancet, exploring the international health dimensions of Daniel Kahneman’s research.
Professor Kahneman is Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for “having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision making under uncertainty”.
Kahneman’s work, it’s said, has laid the foundation for a new field of research by discovering how human judgment may take shortcuts that systematically depart from basic principles of probability.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception and poster presentation in the Jeffrey Hall, Institute of Education.
If you would like to reserve a place at the lecture, please contact
Jennifer Aves-Elliott
UCL Development & Corporate Communications Office
Email devtemp1@adm.ucl.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0) 20 7679 9737 (internal x.09737)
If you have any questions about the lecture, or would like to submit a poster, please contact
Lorna Richardson at IHMEC
Email rmhajm0@ucl.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0) 20 7288 3169
http://www.ihmec.ucl.ac.uk/events/Lee/Leedetails.htm
A confirmation of your booking and a map will be sent to you via email (or post if you do not have an email address) approximately one week prior to the event.
