Friday 13 March 2020
07:45
Covid-19 virus briefing
Professor Baron Peter Piot and Dr Adam Kucharski
This special event will provide a briefing on where we are with the Covid-19 virus and what we can expect going forward.
We will hear from Peter Piot, the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, and Adam Kucharski whose recent book, The Rules of Contagion: why things spread and why things stop, shows how mathematical approaches can help us better understand and, in turn, better respond to contagion in all its dynamic forms.
Peter Piot is the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Handa Professor of Global Health.
In 1976 he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an Associate Director of the Global Programme on AIDS of WHO.
He is Vice-Chair of the board of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Tokyo, Chair of the Global Burden of Disease Independent Advisory Committee, and Chair of the King Baudouin Foundation US. He is also a member of the board for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the African Health Research Institute, and the Oxford Martin School.
Professor Peter Piot has received numerous scientific and civic awards including an honorary doctorate from seven universities, the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, and Robert Koch Gold medal, (2015). He was a 2014 TIME Person of the Year (The Ebola Fighters), and received the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health.
Peter Piot is the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Handa Professor of Global Health.
In 1976 he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008, and was an Associate Director of the Global Programme on AIDS of WHO.
He is Vice-Chair of the board of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Tokyo, Chair of the Global Burden of Disease Independent Advisory Committee, and Chair of the King Baudouin Foundation US. He is also a member of the board for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the African Health Research Institute, and the Oxford Martin School.
