Can We Live Forever? (w/ Abdoulaye Djimdé & Sarah Harper)

In the fifth episode of Science Forward, the podcast of the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board, we speak with Board Member and CAMES Professor Abdoulaye Djimdé and Professor Sarah Harper about ageing, longevity and the science of living longer.

Science is beginning to understand the biological processes that make us age. But extending healthy life is not the same as defeating death. The benefits of longer lives will only matter if they are shared equally.

Can science slow or reverse ageing? Who will benefit from the extra years? And what needs to change when entire societies grow older?

Join us as we explore what science now knows about why we age, how longer lives could reshape society, and what it will take to ensure those extra years are both healthy and shared equally.

Read the Science Brief on the Biology of Aging here: https://www.un.org/scientific-advisory-board/en/biology-aging

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