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This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Alexandre Kalache is a physician graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Epidemiology from Oxford University. A student activist during the Brazilian military dictatorship and now a citizen of the world, he is the true embodiment of the term "active aging". He teaches at universities in Australia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Argentina and Spain, and has developed academic activities at Oxford University and London University. Throughout his 40 years of work, he has applied his medical, epidemiological, and gerontological training to everyday life - in particular by his positive focus in relation to longevity, and his life course approach, as regards health and the aging population.