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Professor Peter Piot

Kirsty Young's castaway is the Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Peter Piot. As a microbiologist he is known for his research into viruses and into the public health aspects of sexually transmitted diseases, and, more recently, on the politics of AIDS and global…

Inside Covid-19: Beware of virus's long-term effects - Drs Piot, File; Attention shifts to antibodies, immunity. Ep 74

In episode 74 of Inside Covid-19, two of the scientific world’s leading lights, Dr Peter Piot and Dr Thomas File, warn about thus-far overlooked long term impacts on the human body of the coronavirus; and as the world’s focus swings from stemming infections to beating off the virus, we take a close…

Peter Piot: Virus Hunter

Eric Goosby and Ben Plumley reflect on an interview with Professor Peter Piot, recorded earlier this year, on how, against a backwash of climate disruption, defining global infectious diseases as security threats - can attract essential  financial and political resources - but can be counter-intuit…

Global Health at a Crossroads: Is it Over? | Sir Peter Piot & Simon Bland

In this landmark episode, two titans of global health, Sir Professor Peter Piot and Simon Bland, engage in a candid and compelling conversation about the field's evolving landscape. They dissect the concept of "Global Health 2.0/3.0," exploring how recent funding shifts and geopolitical changes are…

Peter Piot, LSHTM: “A brilliant coalition” essential to success

The renowned global health leader, Peter Piot, LSHTM, opens this conversation with reflections on what drove the historic global health successes, including “a brilliant coalition” and U.S. bipartisan leadership grounded in statecraft and strategic thinking. That “twenty-five years of historical an…

Medical Innovation 2010: Opening Remarks and Keynote Address

Opening remarks for the Medical Innovation 2010 Conference and a Keynote Address given by Prof Baron Peter Piot, The Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, 'Harnessing Innovation to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Global Health Landscape'

Marshalling Effective Response to Health Crises: Sir Peter Piot, Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

As concerns escalate about the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in Africa, we bring you the unique insights of Dr. Peter Piot, a renowned microbiologist who co-discovered the virus 50 years ago during the first recorded outbreak of the disease. His on-the-ground account of that crisis was provided to us…

Ebola Is Back: Virus Pioneer Peter Piot Explains the Threat

Peter Piot first encountered the Ebola virus in a laboratory in Antwerp in 1976. At the time, the pathogen was largely unknown. Now, almost 50 years later, a new outbreak is spreading through parts of Central Africa, triggering travel restrictions and quarantines across the globe. In this conversat…

#5-EN No Time to Lose: Insights on the Race to Contain Ebola

In this episode, we discuss the current outbreak of Ebola: a rare, but deadly, disease spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo. Why do Ebola outbreaks keep emerging?How does the virus actually spread? How can a disease with such a high fatality rate be contained? And what does it take to…

The politics of AIDS

Dr Peter Piot, Director of the Institute for Global Health, Imperial College, draws on his experience at the United Nations to explain why AIDS needs business to provide the leadership of the future. Good leadership, he says, is about running programmes not based on opinion polls but on what is goo…