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#9 Peter Piot – EURO HEALTH Podcast

February 09, 2022 • Health Podcast • Season 1 • Episode 9

When will the pandemic end?“ „Well I am sorry I forgot my crystal ball.“ These sentences are opening the 9th Episode of Euro Health Podcast with Peter Piot. It is not possible to fully predict the future, but we can be slightly optimistic on the development of the COVID-19 virus. It is not the end of the pandemic, but with Omicron variant we can expect better times. But what will our future look like? Is there going to be some „new normal“? How should we look at the measures for the future? Will wearing a face mask or taking regular COVID-19 testing become our daily routine? These and many more questions in the new Euro Health Podcast episode.

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Peter Piot is a Belgian national, a Handa Professor of Global Health and the former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He holds a medical degree from the University of Ghent (1974), and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Antwerp (1980). In May 2020, the European Commission has appointed Belgian virologist Peter Piot to the post of special advisor to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on the response to the coronavirus and COVID-19. In December 2021, it has been announced that Prof Piot will be the Chief Scientific Advisor for Epidemics in the EU. Before entering the European Commission, Peter Piot has had a long career in health-related matters. In 1976, two years after graduating from the University of Ghent, he co-discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire, the current Democratic Republic of Congo. He also led pioneering research on HIV/AIDS, women’s health, and infectious diseases, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. From 1995 until 2008, Peter Piot directed the United Nations AIDS programme and worked as Under Secretary-General of the United Nations. Peter Piot has also had an extensive teaching career. 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. He was a Senior Fellow at the University of Washington, a Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was the Director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College, London, and held the chair 2009/2010 "Knowledge against poverty" at the College de France.

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Euro Health Podcast focuses on European health policy by giving voice to leading experts. The goal is to bring complex and evidence-based information, which could lead to a better Europe. Podcast is hosted by Tomáš Jirsa and Jan Klusáček.

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