The Oxford Colloquy

Professor Peter Openshaw discusses Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV). RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms in most adults but it is the leading cause of hospitalisation in babies Step into the world of groundbreaking medical research with the latest episode of our podcast as Sir Andrew Pollard engages in a riveting conversation with the esteemed...

Sir Andrew Pollard talks to Sir Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation and previously the director of The Wellcome Trust in the UK. Andrew Pollard's guest on this podcast is Sir Jeremy Farrar, who serves as the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation and held the position of director at the Wellcome Trust in the UK from 2013 to 2023. Sir Farrar is a clinician-scie...

Sir Andrew Pollard talks to Sir Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford. He is Co-Chief investigator of the RECOVERY trial of drug treatments for COVID. Peter Horby talks about his early medical career working with HIV patients in hospitals. He talks about his background in infectious diseases and public health. His...

Sir Andrew Pollard talks to Uğur Şahin. Şahin is a German oncologist and immunologist. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed one of the major COVID-19 vaccines. Sir Andrew Pollard talks to Uğur Şahin. Şahin is a German oncologist and immunologist. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed with US company Pfizer the hugely successful Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vacc...

Sir Andrew Pollard talks to Sir Pascal Soriot, the CEO of AstraZeneca about their pandemic partnership to develop the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. Over three billion vaccines have been delivered, saving six and a half million lives. It’s a reunion in this episode of the Oxford Colloquy, as Sir Andrew Pollard talks to Sir Pascal Soriot, the CEO of AstraZeneca (AZ), about their pandemic partnership t...

Professor Eddie Holmes, who co-authored the publication of the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 through work with colleagues in Wuhan, China speaks to Professor Andrew Pollard about his scientific career and this pivotal pandemic work. An interview between Prof Sir Andrew Pollard and Prof Eddie Holmes, an evolutionary biologist, fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Australia and the Ro...

Andrew Pollard talks to Professor Maheshi Ramasamy about her pandemic work as a hospital consultant treating extremely sick patients in intensive care. They also discuss her research career in vaccines and infectious diseases. Professor Maheshi Ramasamy is a consultant physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and also a clinician scientist at the Oxford Vaccine Group. Andrew Pollard talk...

Shabir Madhi Professor of Vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, South Africa discusses the effect of the global pandemic on Africa and his work on COVID-19 vaccines. In this episode, Andrew Pollard speaks to Professor Shabir Madhi about his life working in medicine in South Africa and his work on the epidemiology of childhood infectious diseases including HIV. Shabir Mad...

Sir Andrew and Professor Adam Finn discuss his work as paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases. They discuss the pandemic as it affected children and the different responses to the disease in adults and children. Professor Adam Finn, Professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol and head of the Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre talks to Sir Andrew Pollard about his experience of...

Sir Andrew Pollard & Sir Patrick Vallance discuss the COVID-19 pandemic. He shares insights into his medical career and vital work during the pandemic as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government. Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP HonFREng was UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) from April 2018 to April 2023.Previous to that role he was President of Research and Development a...

Dame Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, talks about her life in science and her work with a talented and dedicated team at Oxford in developing and testing the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19. Sir Andrew Pollard talks with colleague Dame Sarah Gilbert on her research and her work on flu vaccines and developing the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. They first d...

Dame Louise Richardson, discusses navigating Oxford University through the tumultuous peak of the global pandemic and her career as an Irish political scientist whose expertise lies in the study of terrorism. In this episode, your host Sir Andrew Pollard has the privilege of engaging in a compelling and enlightening conversation with Dame Louise Mary Richardson DBE FRSE, an extraordinary Irish pol...

Sir Andrew Pollard's podcast features Professor Neil Ferguson, an expert in the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. They discuss how mathematical models help understand disease transmission, vaccines, and immunity. In this fascinating episode of Sir Andrew Pollard's podcast, he is joined by Professor Neil Ferguson, an expert in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases from Imperial...

Journalist Fergus Walsh talks about covering disease outbreaks & his medical journalism career. Accuracy, fact-checking, and communicating complex scientific findings are important to him. He discusses this passion for reliable information with Sir Andrew Sir Andrew Pollard sat down with, British journalist Fergus Walsh the medical editor of the BBC. The episode delved into Fergus’s early days...

Dame Jennifer Harries shares insights on her career, family influence, and managing public health threats with Sir Andrew Pollard. Highlights include Salisbury novichok incident preparedness, COVID19 response efforts. Sir Andrew Pollard, sat down with Dame Jennifer Margaret Harries DBE, the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health in the UK, to discuss the critical role of public health i...

In conversation with Sir Andrew Pollard, Professor Wendy Barclay, a renowned virologist, discusses viruses' crucial role in pandemics. Sir Andrew Pollard engages in a captivating discussion with Professor Wendy Barclay, an esteemed virologist, about the crucial role of viruses in causing pandemics. Highlights include viral transmission routes, COVID-19's impact on the human bod...

Sir Andrew Pollard & Sir John Bell discuss COVID-19 pandemic in China, Oxford Univ. & AstraZeneca's vaccine efforts. Bell highlights global response, data sharing, Oxford's vaccine expertise & diagnostic testing. Sir Andrew Pollard, sat down with Sir John Irving Bell, a renowned Canadian-British immunologist and academic, who is currently the Regius Professor of Medicine at University...

Kate Bingham, a British venture capitalist, discussed her role in the UK's COVID-19 vaccine rollout and her leadership of the vaccine task force and the importance of diplomacy in the global fight against COVID-19. In this episode of his podcast, Sir Andrew Pollard was joined by Kate Bingham, a venture capitalist where she is currently a managing partner, who played a crucial role in the UK's COVI...