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Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot, KCMG, FRCP, FFPH, FMedSci (born 17 February 1949) is a Belgian-British microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS. After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS.
Jul 17, 2014 · 18 July 2014. Peter Piot. By Rob Brown. BBC World Service. Nearly 40 years ago, a young Belgian scientist travelled to a remote part of the Congolese rainforest - his task was to help find out...
Jun 1, 2021 · June 5, 2021, marks 40 years since the first reports of what was later known to be AIDS. Udani Samarasekera spoke with Peter Piot about the past, present, and future of the HIV/AIDS response. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (London, UK), starts our interview with an apology.
Jul 29, 2021 · 29 July 2021. Influential global health figures honour his far-reaching achievements. Professor Peter Piot has steered the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) through an unprecedented period of major global health crises such as Ebola and COVID-19 during his 11 years at the helm.
Piot was the founding executive director of UNAIDS as well as an under secretary-general of the United Nations, serving in both roles from 1995 through 2008. Currently he is director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Former UNAIDS Executive Director (1995 - 2008) Peter Piot. Executive Director of UNAIDS since its creation in 1995 and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr Peter Piot comes from a distinguished academic and scientific career focusing on AIDS and women’s health in the developing world.
May 8, 2020 · Virologist Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, fell ill with COVID-19 in mid-March. He spent a week in a hospital and has been recovering at his home in London since. Climbing a flight of stairs still leaves him breathless.
It is 1995 when Peter Piot receives an honorary doctorate from VUB. Versus the virus. He is a medical pioneer: an enemy of the enemy. His in-depth research and diligent approach saved and still saves lives, taking virus control to a new level.
Jan 27, 2022 · The co-discoverer of the Ebola virus tells Mun-Keat Looi how he has been personally affected by long covid and what the pandemic looks like in low and middle income countries. Peter Piot identified and helped stop not one but two Ebola epidemics, as well as being a pioneering researcher during the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
Apr 20, 2016 · Peter Piot has been at the heart of two epidemics: HIV/AIDS and Ebola. In 1976, as a young Belgian researcher, he co-discovered the Ebola virus; then, in the ’80s, he was instrumental in establishing scientific understanding of the spread of HIV in Africa.
