In this audio recording you will hear Jane Macnaughton give her keynote address at the Annual Association of Medical Humanities conference, held at the University of Aberdeen. If you have not yet read Will Viney’s review of the conference, this can be found here; it will give you a wider sense of conference’s ambitions and accomplishments. Jane’s talk explains what it means to create future-orientated research agendas that address global issues, while describing many of the projects that are being carried out and developed at Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities.