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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.
Peter Piot. Baron Peter Piot. Handa Professor of Global Health. Jump to: Affiliations Publications. Share. Affiliations. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics. Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health. Selected Publications.
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...
Jul 29, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Jan 27, 2022 · 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. But when covid-19 hit, “Finally, the viruses got me,” he told Science in 2020.
May 8, 2024 · Peter Piot is a Belgian microbiologist who served as executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and under-secretary-general of the United Nations (1995–2008), best known for his coordination of global efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Peter Piot works as a doctor at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is fascinated by everything to do with viruses and is part of an enthusiastic team that observes a Marburg-like virus in a blood sample from a sick nun in Zaire.
