Annual Jawaharla Nehru Lecture: Health and disease in the world's pharmacy - India
36th Annual Jawaharlal Nehru Lecture
Health and disease in the world's pharmacy - India
Professor Baron Peter Piot, KCMG, FMedSci is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a Professor of Global Health. 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 spearheading UN reform by bringing together 10 UN system organisations. In 1976 he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, and led research on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and women's health, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. He was a 2014 TIME Person of the Year (The Ebola Fighters), and received the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health. He has published over 580 scientific articles and 17 books, including his memoir 'No Time to Lose' in 2012 (WW Norton), translated into French, Dutch, Japanese and Korean, and 'AIDS between science and politics' in 2015 (Columbia University Press).
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