Conversations on Ageing: Laureate Professor Peter Doherty AC

How can older people contribute to public discourse on ageing and identity?

Join us to hear the views of eminent immunologist Peter Doherty AC.

Professor Doherty was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996. He was Australian of the Year in 1997, and is the best-selling author of several books including The Beginner’s Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science (2005), Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us About Our Health and the World (2012), The Knowledge Wars (2015), The Incidental Tourist (2018) and most recently, An Insider’s Plague Year (2021).

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