The Chuck Feeney Lecture Series — Inaugural Lecture

^{Photograph by Atlantic Fellow Alex Kornhuber}

Join us at Trinity College Dublin as we mark ten years since Chuck Feeney’s transformative gift led to the establishment of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI).

Theme

The theme of the inaugural lecture is: “Brain Health, Equity, and Our Shared Planet.”

Program

Speakers:

• Event Chair Welcome: Prof Iracema Leroi — GBHI Site Director and Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry, Trinity College
• Opening Remarks: Micheál Martin, TD — Taoiseach (Head of Government of Ireland)
• Welcome Address: Dr Linda Doyle — Provost & President of Trinity College 
• Reflections on Chuck Feeney and His Legacy: Christopher G. Oechsli — President & Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic Philanthropies

• Equity, Climate Justice, and the World We Share: Mary Robinson — Former President of Ireland

Panel Discussion: 

Drawing on diverse perspectives, the panel explores how brain health reflects a lifetime of social and environmental conditions, many shaped by inequality.  

• Mary Robinson
• Dr Rupa Marya, Adjunct Professor of Land, Food and Medicine, School of Medicine, Trinity College  
• Kimberley Benjamin, Attorney-at-Law and Atlantic Fellow, GBHI
• Prof Ian Robertson, GBHI Founding Director and Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Trinity College

Inaugural Lecture Reflections: 

• Closing Remarks — Event Chair
• Event Close — Prof Brian Lawlor, GBHI Founding Director and Professor of Old Age Psychiatry 

About The Chuck Feeney Lecture Series

Over the past decade, GBHI’s global community of Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health has grown to more than 300 fellows from over 65 countries, dedicated to advancing brain health and equity worldwide.

None of this would have been possible without Chuck Feeney’s extraordinary vision and generosity, which have made an immeasurable difference not only to GBHI, but also to Trinity, Ireland, and the countless people around the world whose lives his philanthropy has touched.

In honour of this legacy, GBHI at Trinity is establishing The Chuck Feeney Lecture Series as an annual platform for knowledge sharing, discussion, and leadership at the intersection of equity, brain health, and society.