Peter Piot
Director, Institute for Global Health Imperial College London
Former Director of UNAIDS
Peter Piot, MD, PhD, is Professor of Global Health, and Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College, London, UK. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008.Under his leadership UNAIDS became the chief advocate for worldwide action against AIDS, also spear heading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organizations in the global aids response.
Dr. Piot co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and led research on HIV/AIDS, women’s health, and public health in Africa. He was a professor of microbiology, and of public health at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, the Free University of Brussels, and the University of Nairobi, was a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington, a Scholar in residence at the Ford Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He holds the chair “Science against poverty” at the College de France in Paris.
He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and published over 500 scientific articles and 16 books.
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