Peter Piot

Professor Peter Piot is Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and former Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. He co-discovered Ebola in 1976.

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What Ebola Teaches Us About Controlling Coronavirus

We should not be surprised by this new coronavirus, but are we ready for a potential pandemic?Early action is critical to stemming outbreaks. Look no further than the glaring failures in the initial responses to...

By Peter Piot

Ebola Co-Discoverer: 'This Was an Avoidable Catastrophe'

The international community took too long to react to the outbreak. We must now put in place mechanisms to handle better the next inevitable epidemic

By Peter Piot
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