In this special series with global health experts, we have been discussing how to push forward the frontlines for our young people. Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of The Wellcome Trust, says the starting point is looking at today's problems with an updated, 21st-century approach. In this video, he draws on his knowledge in handling some of the greatest challenges of our times, including the return of H5N1 which he identified for the world. Science, he states, can never be divorced from social justice. He speaks with James Chau, Host of The China Current.

Sir Jeremy Farrar was recognized in the G7 Communiqué for his work on pathogen surveillance in this pandemic. But the Director of the Wellcome Trust also has plans to "liberate" the potential of science through a special program he calls "Leap', that funds unconventional ideas with human health outcomes in the next decade. He says the global scientific landscape is in danger of becoming conservative, even though the advances of the past year excites him. In this conversation with James Chau, Host of The China Current, Sir Jeremy shares his vision on improving the human condition.

Forty years of AIDS is a landmark in human history. The global response has advanced science and galvanized communities in transformative ways. But people living with HIV continue to be shunned and rejected — which creates barriers to the treatment they need. In the 1980s, Dr. Margaret Chan was working in Hong Kong where she saw first-hand how this impacted one schoolboy and his family. She stepped in to help him. Decades later, that experience has not left her. She speaks with James Chau, Host of The China Current.