Professor Dame Sally Davies delivered the Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture on 9th June 2015.
In her lecture at the University of Manchester which was entitled ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’, Dame Sally, Chief Medical Officer for England, set out the stark facts that show that drug resistance among bacteria, viruses and other microbes poses a grave threat to health both nationally and globally. She described the scale of the problem in human medicine and talked about her vision for the future. The lecture was preceded by a reception for alumni, donors, supports and faculty members.