Professor Peter Piot CMG MD PhD DTM FRCP FMedSci
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Peter Piot is the Director of the School and a Professor of Global Health. In 2009-2010 he was the Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College for Science, Technology and Medicine, London. 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. 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.
Dr Piot has a medical degree from the University of Ghent (1974), and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Antwerp (1980). In 1976 he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. 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 held the chair 2009/2010 "Knowledge against poverty" at the College de France in Paris, and was a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a foreign member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences, and is also an elected member of the Académie Nationale de Médicine of France, and of the Royal Academy of Medicine of his native Belgium, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was knighted as a baron in 1995, and published over 500 scientific articles and 16 books.
Besides English, he is fluent in French and Dutch (mother tongue).
Affiliation
Research
Main research areas have been on clinical, microbiological, epidemiological, and public health aspects of sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, tuberculosis, and women's health in Africa, and, more recently, on the politics of AIDS and global health, including chronic diseases.
Research areas
- Globalisation
- Health policy
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Policy analysis
- Political science
Disease and Health Conditions
- Chronic disease
- HIV/AIDS
- Infectious disease
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Selected publications
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Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action
Farmer, P.; Frenk, J.; Knaul, F.M.; Shulman, L.N.; Alleyne, G.; Armstrong, L.; Atun, R.; Blayney, D.; Chen, L.; Feachem, R.; Gospodarowicz, M.; Gralow, J.; Gupta, S.; Langer, A.; Lob-Levyt, J.; Neal, C.; Mbewu, A.; Mired, D.; Piot, P.; Reddy, K.S.; Sachs, J.D.; Sarhan, M.; Seffrin, J.R.
Lancet, 2010; 376(9747):1186-93
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The 2010 scientific strategic plan of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise.
Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise (inc. Piot, P)
Nat Med, 2010; 16(9):981-9
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L'Epidemie du sida. Mondialisation des risques, transformations de la sante publique et developpement.
Piot, P.
Fayard (Paris) 2010
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AIDS: lessons learnt and myths dispelled
Piot, P.; Kazatchkine, M.; Dybul, M.; Lob-Levyt, J.
Lancet, 2009; 374(9685):260-3
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The evolving HIV/AIDS response and the urgent tasks ahead
Bertozzi, S.M.; Martz, T.E.; Piot, P.
Health Affairs, 2009; 28(6):1578-90
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Coming to terms with complexity: a call to action for HIV prevention
Piot, P.; Bartos, M.; Larson, H.; Zewdie, D.; Mane, P.
Lancet, 2008; 372(9641):845-59
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Holmes, K.K.; Sparling, P.F.; Stamm, W.E.; Piot, P.; Wasserheit, J.N.; Corey, L.; Cohen, M.S.
McGraw-Hill Medical 2008
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Squaring the circle: AIDS, poverty, and human development
Piot, P.; Greener, R.; Russell, S.
PLoS Med, 2007; 4(10):1571-5
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