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| birth_name = Peter Karel Piot
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'''Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100|KCMG|FRCP|FFPH|FMedSci}} (born 17 February 1949)<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1>{{cite web|last1=Harden|first1=Victoria A.|last2=Piot|first2=Peter|title=In Their Own Words... NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: Interview with Dr. Peter Piot|url=https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Dr+Peter+Piot+Interview+1+January+4+2008|website=National Institutes of Health|date=4 January 2008}}</ref> is a Belgian-British microbiologist known for his research into [[Ebola]] and [[AIDS]].
'''Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot''' (born 17 February 1949)<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1>{{cite web|last1=Harden|first1=Victoria A.|last2=Piot|first2=Peter|title=In Their Own Words... NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: Interview with Dr. Peter Piot|url=https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Dr+Peter+Piot+Interview+1+January+4+2008|website=National Institutes of Health|date=4 January 2008}}</ref> is a Belgian-British microbiologist known for his research into [[Ebola]] and [[AIDS]].


After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS. He has held key positions in the [[United Nations]] and [[World Health Organization]] involving AIDS research and management. He has also served as a professor at several universities worldwide. He is the author of 16 books and over 600 scientific articles.
After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS. He has held key positions in the [[United Nations]] and [[World Health Organization]] involving AIDS research and management. He has also served as a professor at several universities worldwide. He is the author of 16 books and over 600 scientific articles.


==Early life and education==
== Early life and education ==
Piot was born in [[Leuven]], Belgium.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /> His father was a civil servant who worked with agricultural exports and his mother ran a construction company. Piot is the oldest of two brothers and a sister.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 />
Piot was born in [[Leuven]], Belgium.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /> His father was a civil servant who worked with agricultural exports, and his mother ran a construction company. Piot is the oldest of two brothers and a sister.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 />


After beginning in the school of engineering and physics at [[Ghent University]] studying physics, Piot changed to medicine. During medical school, Piot received a [[DTM&H|Diploma in Tropical Medicine]] (DTM) from the [[Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp]] in Antwerp. In 1974, he received an [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] degree from Ghent University.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /> In 1980, Piot received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree in clinical [[microbiology]] from the [[University of Antwerp]].<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /><ref name=LSHTM-Profile>{{cite web|title=Professor Baron Peter Piot; KCMG MD PhD DTM FRCP FFPH FMedSci|url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/piot.peter|website=London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|language=en|access-date=27 July 2017}}</ref>
After studying physics in the School of Engineering and Physics at [[Ghent University]], Piot changed to medicine. During medical school, Piot received a [[DTM&H|Diploma in Tropical Medicine]] (DTM) from the [[Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp]] in Antwerp. In 1974, he received an [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] degree from Ghent University.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /> In 1980, Piot received a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree in clinical [[microbiology]] from the [[University of Antwerp]].<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /><ref name=LSHTM-Profile>{{cite web|title=Professor Baron Peter Piot; KCMG MD PhD DTM FRCP FFPH FMedSci|url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/piot.peter|website=London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|language=en|access-date=27 July 2017|archive-date=14 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414162158/https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/piot.peter|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Career==
== Career ==
In 1976, while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Piot was part of a team that observed a Marburg-like virus in a sample of blood taken from a sick nun working in [[Zaire]].<ref name=1977-Lancet-Zaire>{{cite journal|last1=Pattyn|first1=S.|last2=Groen|first2=G.vander|last3=Jacob|first3=W.|last4=Piot|first4=P.|last5=Courteille|first5=G.|title=Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire|journal=[[The Lancet]]|date=March 1977|volume=309|issue=8011|pages=573–574|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(77)92002-5|pmid=65663|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q34055935|y}}</ref><ref name=2001-Science-HIVAIDS>{{cite journal|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|last2=Bartos|first2=Michael|last3=Ghys|first3=Peter D.|last4=Walker|first4=Neff|last5=Schwartländer|first5=Bernhard|title=The global impact of HIV/AIDS|journal=Nature|date=April 2001|volume=410|issue=6831|pages=968–973|doi=10.1038/35073639|pmid=11309626|bibcode=2001Natur.410..968P|s2cid=4373421|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/35073639}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q28213337|y}}</ref> Piot and his colleagues subsequently traveled to Zaire as part of an International Commission set up by the Government of Zaire to help quell the outbreak.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /> The International Commission made key discoveries into how the virus spread, and traveled from village to village, spreading information and putting the ill and those who had come into contact with them into quarantine. The epidemic was already waning when the International Commission arrived, thanks to measures taken by local and national authorities, and it finally stopped in three months, after it had killed almost 300 people.<ref name=1978-WHO-Ebola-Zaire>{{cite journal|last1=Members of the International Commission|title=Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976.|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=1978|volume=56|issue=2|pages=271–93|pmid=307456|pmc=2395567}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q24650229|y}}</ref> The events were dramatised by [[Mike Walker (radio dramatist)|Mike Walker]] on [[BBC Radio 4]] in December 2014 in a production by [[David Morley (writer)|David Morley]]. Piot narrated the programme.<ref name=2014-BBCRadio4-Ebola>{{cite web|title=Ebola|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v5fjr|website=BBC Radio 4|date=18 December 2014}}</ref>
In 1976, while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Piot was part of a team that observed a Marburg-like virus in a sample of blood taken from a sick nun working in [[Zaire]].<ref name=1977-Lancet-Zaire>{{cite journal|last1=Pattyn|first1=S.|last2=Groen|first2=G.vander|last3=Jacob|first3=W.|last4=Piot|first4=P.|last5=Courteille|first5=G.|title=Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire|journal=[[The Lancet]]|date=March 1977|volume=309|issue=8011|pages=573–574|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(77)92002-5|pmid=65663|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q34055935|y}}</ref><ref name=2001-Science-HIVAIDS>{{cite journal|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|last2=Bartos|first2=Michael|last3=Ghys|first3=Peter D.|last4=Walker|first4=Neff|last5=Schwartländer|first5=Bernhard|title=The global impact of HIV/AIDS|journal=Nature|date=April 2001|volume=410|issue=6831|pages=968–973|doi=10.1038/35073639|pmid=11309626|bibcode=2001Natur.410..968P|s2cid=4373421|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/35073639}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q28213337|y}}</ref> Piot and his colleagues subsequently traveled to Zaire as part of an International Commission set up by the Government of Zaire to help quell the outbreak.<ref name=2008-NIH-OralHistory-Part-1 /> The International Commission made key discoveries into how the virus spread, and traveled from village to village, spreading information and putting the ill and those who had come into contact with them into quarantine. The epidemic was already waning when the International Commission arrived, thanks to measures taken by local and national authorities, and it finally stopped in three months, after it had killed almost 300 people.<ref name=1978-WHO-Ebola-Zaire>{{cite journal|last1=Members of the International Commission|title=Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976.|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=1978|volume=56|issue=2|pages=271–93|pmid=307456|pmc=2395567}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q24650229|y}}</ref> The events were dramatised by [[Mike Walker (radio dramatist)|Mike Walker]] on [[BBC Radio 4]] in December 2014 in a production by [[David Morley (writer)|David Morley]]. Piot narrated the programme.<ref name=2014-BBCRadio4-Ebola>{{cite web|title=Ebola|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v5fjr|website=BBC Radio 4|date=18 December 2014}}</ref>


Piot has received the majority of the credit for discovering Ebola, since in 1976, it was claimed he was the one to receive blood samples while working in a lab at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.<ref name=LSHTM-Profile /> The samples were once claimed to be originally sent by Dr. [[Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum]], a Congolese doctor who obtained the blood samples from those sickened with a mysterious disease in then-Zaire, later discovered to be Ebola. In 2012, Piot published a memoir entitled ''No Time to Lose'' which chronicles his professional work, including the discovery of the Ebolavirus; he mentions Muyembe in passing rather than as a co-discoverer.<ref name=2013-NoTimeToLose>{{cite book|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|title=No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses|date=2013|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York; London|isbn=978-0-393-08411-5|oclc=916025971}}</ref> In a 2016 Journal of Infectious Disease article, co-signed by most of the actors from that first outbreak, including Peter Piot and Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the claims by both Piot and Muyembe to have played a significant role in the early discovery of Ebola have been refuted.<ref name=2016-JID-Ebola-Discovery>{{cite journal|last1=Breman|first1=Joel G.|last2=Heymann|first2=David L.|last3=Lloyd|first3=Graham|last4=McCormick|first4=Joseph B.|last5=Miatudila|first5=Malonga|last6=Murphy|first6=Frederick A.|last7=Muyembé-Tamfun|first7=Jean-Jacques|last8=Piot|first8=Peter|last9=Ruppol|first9=Jean-François|last10=Sureau|first10=Pierre|last11=van der Groen|first11=Guido|last12=Johnson|first12=Karl M.|title=Discovery and Description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and Relevance to the West African Epidemic During 2013–2016|journal=Journal of Infectious Diseases|date=15 October 2016|volume=214|issue=suppl 3|pages=S93–S101|doi=10.1093/INFDIS/JIW207|pmid=27357339|url= |pmc=5050466}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q25115033|y}}</ref> Piot stated in 2019 that "my book was not an attempt to write the history of Ebola, but more my personal experience".<ref name=2019-NPR-EbolaCredit>{{cite news|last1=Peralta|first1=Eyder|title=This Congolese Doctor Discovered Ebola But Never Got Credit For It — Until Now|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/04/774863495/this-congolese-doctor-discovered-ebola-but-never-got-credit-for-it-until-now|work=NPR|date=4 November 2019}}</ref>
Piot has received the majority of the credit for discovering Ebola, since in 1976, it was claimed he was the one to receive blood samples while working in a lab at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.<ref name=LSHTM-Profile /> The samples were once claimed to be originally sent by Dr. [[Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum]], a Congolese doctor who obtained the blood samples from those sickened with a mysterious disease in then-Zaire, later discovered to be Ebola. In 2012, Piot published a memoir entitled ''No Time to Lose'' which chronicles his professional work, including the discovery of the Ebolavirus; he mentions Muyembe in passing rather than as a co-discoverer.<ref name=2013-NoTimeToLose>{{cite book|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|title=No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses|date=2013|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York; London|isbn=978-0-393-08411-5|oclc=916025971}}</ref> In a 2016 Journal of Infectious Disease article, co-signed by most of the actors from that first outbreak, including Peter Piot and Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the claims by both Piot and Muyembe to have played a significant role in the early discovery of Ebola have been refuted.<ref name=2016-JID-Ebola-Discovery>{{cite journal|last1=Breman|first1=Joel G.|last2=Heymann|first2=David L.|last3=Lloyd|first3=Graham|last4=McCormick|first4=Joseph B.|last5=Miatudila|first5=Malonga|last6=Murphy|first6=Frederick A.|last7=Muyembé-Tamfun|first7=Jean-Jacques|last8=Piot|first8=Peter|last9=Ruppol|first9=Jean-François|last10=Sureau|first10=Pierre|last11=van der Groen|first11=Guido|last12=Johnson|first12=Karl M.|title=Discovery and Description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and Relevance to the West African Epidemic During 2013–2016|journal=Journal of Infectious Diseases|date=15 October 2016|volume=214|issue=suppl 3|pages=S93–S101|doi=10.1093/INFDIS/JIW207|pmid=27357339|url= |pmc=5050466}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q25115033|y}}</ref> Piot stated in 2019 that "my book was not an attempt to write the history of Ebola, but more my personal experience".<ref name=2019-NPR-EbolaCredit>{{cite news|last1=Peralta|first1=Eyder|title=This Congolese Doctor Discovered Ebola But Never Got Credit For It — Until Now|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/04/774863495/this-congolese-doctor-discovered-ebola-but-never-got-credit-for-it-until-now|work=NPR|date=4 November 2019}}</ref>


In the 1980s, Piot participated in a series of collaborative projects in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zaire. Project SIDA in Kinshasa, Zaire was the first international project on [[AIDS]] in Africa and is widely acknowledged as having provided the foundations of science's understanding of [[HIV]] infection in Africa. He was a professor of [[microbiology]], and of [[public health]] at the [[Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine]], in [[Antwerp]], and at the [[University of Nairobi]], [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]], the [[University of Lausanne|Lausanne]], and a visiting professor at the [[London School of Economics]]. He was also a senior fellow at the [[University of Washington]] in Seattle, a scholar in residence at the [[Ford Foundation]], and a senior fellow at the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref name=LSHTM-Profile />
In the 1980s, Piot participated in collaborative projects in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zaire. Project SIDA in Kinshasa, Zaire was the first international project on [[AIDS]] in Africa and is widely acknowledged as having provided the foundations of science's understanding of [[HIV]] infection in Africa. He was a professor of [[microbiology]], and of [[public health]] at the [[Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine]], in [[Antwerp]], and at the [[University of Nairobi]], [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]], the [[University of Lausanne|Lausanne]], and a visiting professor at the [[London School of Economics]]. He was also a senior fellow at the [[University of Washington]] in Seattle, a scholar in residence at the [[Ford Foundation]], and a senior fellow at the [[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]].<ref name=LSHTM-Profile />


From 1991 to 1994, Piot was president of the [[International AIDS Society]]. In 1992, he became assistant director of the [[World Health Organization]]'s Global Programme on HIV/AIDS. On 12 December 1994, he was appointed executive director of the [[Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS]] (UNAIDS) and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.<ref name=2008-Lancet-Profile>{{cite journal|last1=Shetty|first1=Priya|title=Peter Piot|journal=The Lancet|date=June 2008|volume=371|issue=9628|pages=1907|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60820-X|pmid=18539213|s2cid=205951166|url=https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2808%2960820-X}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q48518024|y}}</ref>
From 1991 to 1994, Piot was president of the [[International AIDS Society]]. In 1992, he became assistant director of the [[World Health Organization]]'s Global Programme on HIV/AIDS. On 12 December 1994, he was appointed executive director of the [[Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS]] (UNAIDS) and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.<ref name=2008-Lancet-Profile>{{cite journal|last1=Shetty|first1=Priya|title=Peter Piot|journal=The Lancet|date=June 2008|volume=371|issue=9628|pages=1907|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60820-X|pmid=18539213|s2cid=205951166|url=https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2808%2960820-X|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q48518024|y}}</ref>


From 2009 to 2010, Piot served as director of the Institute for Global Health at [[Imperial College London]].<ref name=LSHTM-Profile />
From 2009 to 2010, Piot served as director of the Institute for Global Health at [[Imperial College London]].<ref name=LSHTM-Profile />


===London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine===
=== London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ===
In October 2010, Piot became the director of the [[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]].<ref name=2010-NIH-OralHistory-Part-3>{{cite web|last1=Harden|first1=Victoria A.|last2=Piot|first2=Peter|title=In Their Own Words... NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: Dr Peter Piot Interview 3 - June 16, 2010|url=https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Dr+Peter+Piot+Interview+3+June+16+2010|website=National Institutes of Health|date=16 June 2010}}</ref>
In October 2010, Piot became the director of the [[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]].<ref name=2010-NIH-OralHistory-Part-3>{{cite web|last1=Harden|first1=Victoria A.|last2=Piot|first2=Peter|title=In Their Own Words... NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: Dr Peter Piot Interview 3 – June 16, 2010|url=https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Dr+Peter+Piot+Interview+3+June+16+2010|website=National Institutes of Health|date=16 June 2010}}</ref>


In addition to his work at LSHTM, Piot is a member of the [[Institute of Medicine]] of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences of the United States]] and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of London]], UK and a Fellow of the [[Academy of Medical Sciences]]. In 2011, [[Amy Gutmann]] appointed him to serve on the International Research Panel at the [[Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues]].
In addition to his work at LSHTM, Piot is a member of the [[Institute of Medicine]] of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences of the United States]] and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians of London]], UK and a Fellow of the [[Academy of Medical Sciences]]. In 2011, [[Amy Gutmann]] appointed him to serve on the International Research Panel at the [[Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues]].


In 2014, in the face of an unprecedented [[2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak|Ebola epidemic in western Africa]], Piot and other scientists called for the emergency release of the experimental [[ZMapp]] vaccine for use on humans before it had undergone clinical testing on humans.<ref name="2014-LATimes-Ebola">{{cite news|last1=Dixon|first1=Robyn|author-link=Robyn Dixon (journalist)|date=6 August 2014|title=Three leading Ebola experts call for release of experimental drug|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|location=Johannesburg|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-three-ebola-experts-release-drugs-20140806-story.html}}</ref> That year, he was appointed by Director General [[Margaret Chan]] to the [[World Health Organization]]'s Advisory Group on the Ebola Virus Disease Response, co-chaired by [[Sam Zaramba]] and [[David L. Heymann]].<ref name=2015-WHO-AdvisoryGroup>{{cite web|title=Members of the WHO Advisory Group on the Ebola Virus Disease Response|url=https://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/advisory-groups/members/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128154756/http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/advisory-groups/members/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 November 2014|website=World Health Organization|date=September 2015}}</ref> He also chaired an independent panel convened by Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine into the national and international response to the epidemic, which sharply criticised the response of the WHO and put forward ten recommendations for the body's reorganisation.<ref>{{citation|title=Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola|author=Moon S|journal=Lancet|volume=386|issue=10009|pages=2204–2221|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00946-0|display-authors=etal|pmid=26615326|year=2015|pmc=7137174|doi-access=free }}</ref> In February 2020, he criticised the delay in declaring the [[COVID-19 pandemic|2019–20 novel coronavirus outbreak]] focused on [[Hubei]], China, a [[Public Health Emergency of International Concern]], and advocated a five-point scale for outbreaks, rather the current binary (emergency/no emergency) system.<ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://anchor.fm/lshtm/episodes/S1E5-Coronavirus---will-it-become-a-pandemic-eamji1|title=Coronavirus - will it become a pandemic? (''LSHTM Viral'' S1E5)|time=06:34–07:56|host=Peter Piot, James Barr|publisher=[[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]]|date=7 February 2020|access-date=9 February 2010 }}</ref>
In 2014, in the face of an unprecedented [[2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak|Ebola epidemic in western Africa]], Piot and other scientists called for the emergency release of the experimental [[ZMapp]] vaccine for use on humans before it had undergone clinical testing on humans.<ref name="2014-LATimes-Ebola">{{cite news|last1=Dixon|first1=Robyn|author-link=Robyn Dixon (journalist)|date=6 August 2014|title=Three leading Ebola experts call for release of experimental drug|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|location=Johannesburg|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-three-ebola-experts-release-drugs-20140806-story.html}}</ref> That year, he was appointed by Director General [[Margaret Chan]] to the [[World Health Organization]]'s Advisory Group on the Ebola Virus Disease Response, co-chaired by [[Sam Zaramba]] and [[David L. Heymann]].<ref name=2015-WHO-AdvisoryGroup>{{cite web|title=Members of the WHO Advisory Group on the Ebola Virus Disease Response|url=https://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/advisory-groups/members/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128154756/http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/advisory-groups/members/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 November 2014|website=World Health Organization|date=September 2015}}</ref> He also chaired an independent panel convened by Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine into the national and international response to the epidemic, which sharply criticised the response of the WHO and put forward ten recommendations for the body's reorganisation.<ref>{{citation|title=Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola|author=Moon S|journal=Lancet|volume=386|issue=10009|pages=2204–2221|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00946-0|display-authors=etal|pmid=26615326|year=2015|pmc=7137174|doi-access=free }}</ref> In February 2020, he criticised the delay in declaring the [[COVID-19 pandemic|2019–20 novel coronavirus outbreak]] focused on [[Hubei]], China, a [[Public Health Emergency of International Concern]], and advocated a five-point scale for outbreaks, rather the current binary (emergency/no emergency) system.<ref>{{cite podcast|url=https://anchor.fm/lshtm/episodes/S1E5-Coronavirus---will-it-become-a-pandemic-eamji1|title=Coronavirus – will it become a pandemic? (''LSHTM Viral'' S1E5)|time=06:34–07:56|host=Peter Piot, James Barr|publisher=[[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine]]|date=7 February 2020|access-date=9 February 2010 }}</ref>


In 2020, Piot was appointed to the [[European Commission]]’s advisory panel on [[COVID-19]], co-chaired by [[Ursula von der Leyen]] and [[Stella Kyriakides]].<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_481 COVID-19: Commission launches European team of scientific experts to strengthen EU coordination and medical response] [[European Commission]], press release of 17 March 2020.</ref> In the preparations for the Global Health Summit hosted by the European Commission and the [[G20]] in May 2021, Piot co-chaired the event's High Level Scientific Panel.<ref>[https://global-health-summit.europa.eu/panel-scientific-experts_en Global Health Summit: Panel of Scientific Experts] [[European Commission]].</ref>
In 2020, Piot was appointed to the [[European Commission]]’s advisory panel on [[COVID-19]], co-chaired by [[Ursula von der Leyen]] and [[Stella Kyriakides]].<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_481 COVID-19: Commission launches European team of scientific experts to strengthen EU coordination and medical response] [[European Commission]], press release of 17 March 2020.</ref> In the preparations for the Global Health Summit hosted by the European Commission and the [[G20]] in May 2021, Piot co-chaired the event's High-Level Scientific Panel.<ref>[https://global-health-summit.europa.eu/panel-scientific-experts_en Global Health Summit: Panel of Scientific Experts] [[European Commission]].</ref>


==Personal life==
== Personal life ==
In May 2020, Piot disclosed that he had had [[COVID-19]].<ref name=2020-Science-COVID>{{cite news|last1=Draulans|first1=Dirk|title='Finally, a virus got me.' Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19|work=Science: AAAS|date=8 May 2020|language=en}}</ref>
In May 2020, Piot disclosed that he had had [[COVID-19]].<ref name=2020-Science-COVID>{{cite news|last1=Draulans|first1=Dirk|title='Finally, a virus got me.' Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19|work=Science: AAAS|date=8 May 2020|language=en}}</ref>


Piot is fluent in English, French, and Dutch.<ref name=LSHTM-Profile /> He is married to the American anthropologist [[Heidi Larson]].<ref name="FT">{{cite web|date=October 3, 2014|title=Peter Piot - Out to stop the Ebola virus he found|url=https://www.ft.com/content/da2cf694-4970-11e4-8d68-00144feab7de|access-date=September 29, 2018|website=Financial Times}}</ref>
Piot is fluent in English, French, and Dutch.<ref name=LSHTM-Profile /> He is married to the American anthropologist [[Heidi Larson]].<ref name="FT">{{cite web|date=October 3, 2014|title=Peter Piot – Out to stop the Ebola virus he found|url=https://www.ft.com/content/da2cf694-4970-11e4-8d68-00144feab7de|access-date=September 29, 2018|website=Financial Times}}</ref>


==Other activities==
== Other activities ==
* Africa Europe Foundation (AEF), Member of the Strategy Group on Health (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.friendsofeurope.org/initiatives/africa-europe-foundation?person-aea=141#strategy-groups Strategy Group on Health] Africa Europe Foundation (AEF).</ref>
* Africa Europe Foundation (AEF), Member of the Strategy Group on Health (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.friendsofeurope.org/initiatives/africa-europe-foundation?person-aea=141#strategy-groups Strategy Group on Health] Africa Europe Foundation (AEF).</ref>
* Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG), [[Robert Koch Institute]] (RKI), member of the scientific advisory board (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Institute/Committees/SAB_ZIG/SAB_ZIG_Members.html Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG)] [[Robert Koch Institute]] (RKI).</ref>
* Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG), [[Robert Koch Institute]] (RKI), member of the scientific advisory board (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Institute/Committees/SAB_ZIG/SAB_ZIG_Members.html Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG)] [[Robert Koch Institute]] (RKI).</ref>
* Exemplars in Global Health, member of the senior advisory board (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.exemplars.health/learn-more/about Senior Advisory Board] Exemplars in Global Health.</ref>
* Exemplars in Global Health, member of the senior advisory board (since 2020)<ref>[https://www.exemplars.health/learn-more/about Senior Advisory Board] Exemplars in Global Health.</ref>
* [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI), member of the board (since 2018)<ref>[https://cepi.net/about/whoweare/ Board] [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI).</ref><ref>[https://cepi.net/news_cepi/cepi-announces-new-permanent-board/ CEPI announces new permanent board] [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI), press release of 24 January 2018.</ref>
* [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI), member of the board (since 2018)<ref>[https://cepi.net/about/whoweare/ Board] [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI).</ref><ref>[https://cepi.net/news_cepi/cepi-announces-new-permanent-board/ CEPI announces new permanent board] [[Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations]] (CEPI), press release of 24 January 2018.</ref>
* ''[[The Lancet|The Lancet Public Health]]'', member of the editorial advisory board (since 2016)<ref>[https://www.thelancet.com/lanpub/editorial-advisory-board Editorial Advisory Board] ''[[The Lancet]]''.</ref>
* ''[[The Lancet]] Public Health'', member of the editorial advisory board (since 2016)<ref>[https://www.thelancet.com/lanpub/editorial-advisory-board Editorial Advisory Board] ''[[The Lancet]]''.</ref>
* Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), chair of the board of directors (since 2017)<ref>[https://www.ahri.org/structure-governance/ Governance] Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI).</ref><ref>[https://www.ahri.org/olive-shisana-peter-piot-appointed-africa-health-research-institute-board/ Olive Shisana and Peter Piot appointed to Africa Health Research Institute Board] Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), press release of 31 January 2017.</ref>
* Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), chair of the board of directors (since 2017)<ref>[https://www.ahri.org/structure-governance/ Governance] Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI).</ref><ref>[https://www.ahri.org/olive-shisana-peter-piot-appointed-africa-health-research-institute-board/ Olive Shisana and Peter Piot appointed to Africa Health Research Institute Board] Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), press release of 31 January 2017.</ref>
* UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), chair of the Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (since 2017)<ref>[https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/ Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research] UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR).</ref><ref>[https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/news-article/announcing-the-chair-of-the-new-hmg-scor-board/ Announcing the Chair of the new HMG SCOR Board] UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), press release of 26 September 2017.</ref>
* UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), chair of the Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (since 2017)<ref>[https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/ Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511113055/https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/ |date=11 May 2020 }} UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR).</ref><ref>[https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/news-article/announcing-the-chair-of-the-new-hmg-scor-board/ Announcing the Chair of the new HMG SCOR Board] UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), press release of 26 September 2017.</ref>
* Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), member of the advisory panel (since 2015)<ref>[http://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/our-advisory-panel/ Advisory Panel] Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF).</ref>
* Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF), member of the advisory panel (since 2015)<ref>[http://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/our-advisory-panel/ Advisory Panel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322233042/http://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/about-us/our-governance/our-advisory-panel/ |date=22 March 2020 }} Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF).</ref>
* [[Novartis Foundation]], member of the board of trustees (since 2015)<ref>[https://www.novartisfoundation.org/about-us/board-trustees Board of Trustees] [[Novartis Foundation]].</ref><ref>[https://www.novartis.com/news/media-releases/novartis-foundation-confirms-new-members-its-board-trustees-including-new-chairman-dr-joerg-reinhardt Novartis Foundation confirms new members of its Board of trustees, including new Chairman Dr. Joerg Reinhardt] [[Novartis Foundation]], press release of 27 July 2015.</ref>
* [[Novartis Foundation]], member of the board of trustees (since 2015)<ref>[https://www.novartisfoundation.org/about-us/board-trustees Board of Trustees] [[Novartis Foundation]].</ref><ref>[https://www.novartis.com/news/media-releases/novartis-foundation-confirms-new-members-its-board-trustees-including-new-chairman-dr-joerg-reinhardt Novartis Foundation confirms new members of its Board of trustees, including new Chairman Dr. Joerg Reinhardt] [[Novartis Foundation]], press release of 27 July 2015.</ref>
* [[Antwerp Management School]], member of the international advisory board<ref>[https://www.antwerpmanagementschool.be/en/about/international-advisory-board International Advisory Board] [[Antwerp Management School]].</ref>
* [[Antwerp Management School]], member of the international advisory board<ref>[https://www.antwerpmanagementschool.be/en/about/international-advisory-board International Advisory Board] [[Antwerp Management School]].</ref>
* Centre Virchow-Villermé, member of the international advisory board<ref>[https://virchowvillerme.eu/international-advisory-board-2/ International Advisory Board] Centre Virchow-Villermé.</ref>
* Centre Virchow-Villermé, member of the international advisory board<ref>[https://virchowvillerme.eu/international-advisory-board-2/ International Advisory Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414065613/http://virchowvillerme.eu/international-advisory-board-2/ |date=14 April 2020 }} Centre Virchow-Villermé.</ref>
* [[Global Health Corps]], member of the board of advisors<ref>[https://ghcorps.org/why-were-here/board-members/ Board of Advisors] [[Global Health Corps]].</ref>
* [[Global Health Corps]], member of the board of advisors<ref>[https://ghcorps.org/why-were-here/board-members/ Board of Advisors] [[Global Health Corps]].</ref>
* [[Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT)|Global Health Innovative Technology Fund]] (GHIT), member of the board of directors<ref>[https://www.ghitfund.org/leadership/boardofdirectors Board of Directors] Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund).</ref>
* [[Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT)|Global Health Innovative Technology Fund]] (GHIT), member of the board of directors<ref>[https://www.ghitfund.org/leadership/boardofdirectors Board of Directors] Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund).</ref>
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* [[World Health Summit]], member of the council<ref>[https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/about-whs/leadership.html Council] [[World Health Summit]].</ref>
* [[World Health Summit]], member of the council<ref>[https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/about-whs/leadership.html Council] [[World Health Summit]].</ref>


==Awards==
== Awards ==
* 2003: [[Calderone Prize]]<ref name="Calderone">{{cite web|title=Past Recipients|website=Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health|date=8 September 2018|url=https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/events/distinguished-lectures/calderone-prize/past-recipients|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2003: [[Calderone Prize]]<ref name="Calderone">{{cite web|title=Past Recipients|website=Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health|date=8 September 2018|url=https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/events/distinguished-lectures/calderone-prize/past-recipients|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2004: [[Vlerick Award]]
* 2004: [[Vlerick Award]]
* 2008: America-Flanders Award<ref name="Flanders">{{cite web|trans-title=Flanders-America Awards for Peter Piot and Bruyneel/Armstrong duo|title=Flanders-America Awards voor Peter Piot en duo Bruyneel/Armstrong|website=Het Nieuwsblad Mobile|date=25 February 2009|url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf26022009_007|language=nl|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2008: America-Flanders Award<ref name="Flanders">{{cite web|trans-title=Flanders-America Awards for Peter Piot and Bruyneel/Armstrong duo|title=Flanders-America Awards voor Peter Piot en duo Bruyneel/Armstrong|website=Het Nieuwsblad Mobile|date=25 February 2009|url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf26022009_007|language=nl|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2013: [[Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize]]<ref name="Noguchi">{{cite news|last=Osaki|first=Tomohiro|title=Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize|newspaper=The Japan Times Online|date=2 June 2013|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/belgian-ugandan-win-noguchi-prize/|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2013: [[Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize]]<ref name="Noguchi">{{cite news|last=Osaki|first=Tomohiro|title=Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize|newspaper=The Japan Times Online|date=2 June 2013|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/02/national/politics-diplomacy/belgian-ugandan-win-noguchi-prize/|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2013: Prince Mahidol Award<ref name="Mahidol">{{cite journal|last=Holmes|first=David|title=2013 Prince Mahidol Award winners announced|journal=The Lancet|volume=382|issue=9908|year=2013|issn=0140-6736|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62349-1|pmid=24325009|page=1869|s2cid=42253188}}</ref>
* 2013: Prince Mahidol Award<ref name="Mahidol">{{cite journal|last=Holmes|first=David|title=2013 Prince Mahidol Award winners announced|journal=The Lancet|volume=382|issue=9908|year=2013|issn=0140-6736|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62349-1|pmid=24325009|page=1869|s2cid=42253188|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* 2015: Prix International de l’INSERM<ref name="INSERM">{{cite web|author= histoire|title=Peter Piot, Prix International 2015 / Histoire de l'Inserm|website=Histoire de l'Inserm|url=https://histoire.inserm.fr/de-l-inh-a-l-inserm/les-prix-inserm/prix-2015/peter-piot-prix-international-2015|language=fr|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref>
* 2015: Prix International de l’INSERM<ref name="INSERM">{{cite web|author=histoire|title=Peter Piot, Prix International 2015 / Histoire de l'Inserm|website=Histoire de l'Inserm|url=https://histoire.inserm.fr/de-l-inh-a-l-inserm/les-prix-inserm/prix-2015/peter-piot-prix-international-2015|language=fr|access-date=17 October 2018|archive-date=27 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527090133/https://histoire.inserm.fr/de-l-inh-a-l-inserm/les-prix-inserm/prix-2015/peter-piot-prix-international-2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2015: [[Canada Gairdner Global Health Award]]<ref name="Dirks">{{cite journal|last=Maurice|first=John|title=Peter Piot wins 2015 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award|journal=The Lancet|volume=385|issue=9974|year=2015|issn=0140-6736|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60610-9|pmid=25819690|page=1170|s2cid=9672382}}</ref>
* 2015: [[Canada Gairdner Global Health Award]]<ref name="Dirks">{{cite journal|last=Maurice|first=John|title=Peter Piot wins 2015 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award|journal=The Lancet|volume=385|issue=9974|year=2015|issn=0140-6736|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60610-9|pmid=25819690|page=1170|s2cid=9672382}}</ref>
* 2016: [[Manson Medal]]<ref name="Manson">{{cite web|title=Previous medal winners|website=Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene|date=6 August 2014|url=https://rstmh.org/awards/previous-medal-winners|access-date=17 October 2018|archive-date=23 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123204106/http://rstmh.org/awards/previous-medal-winners|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2016: [[Manson Medal]]<ref name="Manson">{{cite web|title=Previous medal winners|website=Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene|date=6 August 2014|url=https://rstmh.org/awards/previous-medal-winners|access-date=17 October 2018|archive-date=23 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123204106/http://rstmh.org/awards/previous-medal-winners|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2018: Member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Peter Piot |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/peter-piot/|publisher=German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |access-date=26 May 2021}}</ref>
* 2018: Member of the [[German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Peter Piot |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/peter-piot/|publisher=German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |access-date=26 May 2021}}</ref>


==Honours==
== Honours ==
*{{flag|Belgium}}:
* {{flag|Belgium}}:
**Ennobled with the title of ''[[Baron]]'' for life in the [[Nobility of Belgium]] by King [[Albert II of Belgium]] (1995)
** Ennobled with the title of ''[[Baron]]'' for life in the [[Nobility of Belgium]] by King [[Albert II of Belgium]] (1995)
*{{flag|Japan}}:
* {{flag|Japan}}:
**[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 1Class BAR.svg|70px]] Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] (2018)
** [[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 1Class BAR.svg|70px]] Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] (2018)
*{{flag|Senegal}}:
* {{flag|Senegal}}:
**[[File:SEN Order of the Lion - Officer BAR.png|70px]] Officer of the [[National Order of the Lion]]
** [[File:SEN Order of the Lion - Officer BAR.png|70px]] Officer of the [[National Order of the Lion]]
*{{flag|United Kingdom}}:
* {{flag|United Kingdom}}:
**[[Image:UK Order St-Michael St-George ribbon.svg|70px]] Honorary Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (2016)<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/581724/2016_Honorary_awards_V4.pdf Honorary awards]</ref>
** [[File:UK Order St-Michael St-George ribbon.svg|70px]] Honorary Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/581724/2016_Honorary_awards_V4.pdf|title=Honorary awards}}</ref>
**[[Image:UK Order St-Michael St-George ribbon.svg|70px]] Substantive Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3895449|title = Honours and Awards &#124; the Gazette}}</ref>
** [[File:UK Order St-Michael St-George ribbon.svg|70px]] Substantive Knight Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George]] (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3895449|title = Honours and Awards &#124; the Gazette}}</ref>
*{{flag|Zaire}}:
* {{flag|Zaire}}:
**[[File:National Order of the Leopard (Zaire) - ribbon bar.png|70px]] Officer of the [[National Order of the Leopard]] (1976)
** [[File:National Order of the Leopard (Zaire) - ribbon bar.png|70px]] Officer of the [[National Order of the Leopard]] (1976)


==Selected filmography==
== Selected filmography ==
* 2002: ''[[Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series)|Jonathan Dimbleby]]'' (TV series) – episode: "The AIDS Crisis in Africa"
* 2002: ''[[Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series)|Jonathan Dimbleby]]'' (TV series) – episode: "The AIDS Crisis in Africa"
* 2006: ''[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]]'' (TV series documentary) – episode: "The Age of AIDS"
* 2006: ''[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]]'' (TV series documentary) – episode: "The Age of AIDS"
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* 2017: ''Unseen Enemy'' (documentary)
* 2017: ''Unseen Enemy'' (documentary)


==Selected works and publications==
== Selected works and publications ==
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===Selected works===
=== Selected works ===
* {{cite book|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|title=No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses|date=2013|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York; London|isbn=978-0-393-08411-5|oclc=916025971}}
* {{cite book|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|title=No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses|date=2013|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York; London|isbn=978-0-393-08411-5|oclc=916025971}}
* {{cite book|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|title=AIDS: Between Science and Politics|date=2015|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-231-16626-3|oclc=946549752}}
* {{cite book|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|title=AIDS: Between Science and Politics|date=2015|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-231-16626-3|oclc=946549752}}


===Selected publications===
=== Selected publications ===
* {{cite journal|last1=Pattyn|first1=S.|last2=Groen|first2=G.vander|last3=Jacob|first3=W.|last4=Piot|first4=P.|last5=Courteille|first5=G.|title=Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire|journal=The Lancet|date=March 1977|volume=309|issue=8011|pages=573–574|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(77)92002-5|pmid=65663|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q34055935|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Pattyn|first1=S.|last2=Groen|first2=G.vander|last3=Jacob|first3=W.|last4=Piot|first4=P.|last5=Courteille|first5=G.|title=Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire|journal=The Lancet|date=March 1977|volume=309|issue=8011|pages=573–574|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(77)92002-5|pmid=65663|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q34055935|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Members of the International Commission|title=Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976.|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=1978|volume=56|issue=2|pages=271–93|pmid=307456|pmc=2395567}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q24650229|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Members of the International Commission|title=Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976.|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=1978|volume=56|issue=2|pages=271–93|pmid=307456|pmc=2395567}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q24650229|y}}
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* {{cite journal|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|last2=Bartos|first2=Michael|last3=Ghys|first3=Peter D.|last4=Walker|first4=Neff|last5=Schwartländer|first5=Bernhard|title=The global impact of HIV/AIDS|journal=Nature|date=April 2001|volume=410|issue=6831|pages=968–973|doi=10.1038/35073639|pmid=11309626|bibcode=2001Natur.410..968P|s2cid=4373421|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/35073639}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q28213337|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|last2=Bartos|first2=Michael|last3=Ghys|first3=Peter D.|last4=Walker|first4=Neff|last5=Schwartländer|first5=Bernhard|title=The global impact of HIV/AIDS|journal=Nature|date=April 2001|volume=410|issue=6831|pages=968–973|doi=10.1038/35073639|pmid=11309626|bibcode=2001Natur.410..968P|s2cid=4373421|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/35073639}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q28213337|y}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Piot |first1=Peter |title=AIDS: from crisis management to sustained strategic response |journal=The Lancet |date=August 2006 |volume=368 |issue=9534 |pages=526–530 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69161-7 |pmid=16890840 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2806%2969161-7|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q36557334|y}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Piot |first1=Peter |title=AIDS: from crisis management to sustained strategic response |journal=The Lancet |date=August 2006 |volume=368 |issue=9534 |pages=526–530 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69161-7 |pmid=16890840 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2806%2969161-7|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q36557334|y}}
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* {{cite journal |last1=Beaglehole |first1=Robert |last2=Bonita |first2=Ruth |author-link2=Ruth Bonita |last3=Horton |first3=Richard |last4=Adams |first4=Cary |last5=Alleyne |first5=George |last6=Asaria |first6=Perviz |last7=Baugh |first7=Vanessa |last8=Bekedam |first8=Henk |last9=Billo |first9=Nils |last10=Casswell |first10=Sally |last11=Cecchini |first11=Michele |last12=Colagiuri |first12=Ruth |last13=Colagiuri |first13=Stephen |last14=Collins |first14=Tea |last15=Ebrahim |first15=Shah |last16=Engelgau |first16=Michael |last17=Galea |first17=Gauden |last18=Gaziano |first18=Thomas |last19=Geneau |first19=Robert |last20=Haines |first20=Andy |last21=Hospedales |first21=James |last22=Jha |first22=Prabhat |last23=Keeling |first23=Ann |last24=Leeder |first24=Stephen |last25=Lincoln |first25=Paul |last26=McKee |first26=Martin |last27=Mackay |first27=Judith |last28=Magnusson |first28=Roger |last29=Moodie |first29=Rob |last30=Mwatsama |first30=Modi |last31=Nishtar |first31=Sania |last32=Norrving |first32=Bo |last33=Patterson |first33=David |last34=Piot |first34=Peter |last35=Ralston |first35=Johanna |last36=Rani |first36=Manju |last37=Reddy |first37=K Srinath |last38=Sassi |first38=Franco |last39=Sheron |first39=Nick |last40=Stuckler |first40=David |last41=Suh |first41=Il |last42=Torode |first42=Julie |last43=Varghese |first43=Cherian |last44=Watt |first44=Judith |title=Priority actions for the non-communicable disease crisis |journal=The Lancet |date=April 2011 |volume=377 |issue=9775 |pages=1438–1447 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60393-0 |pmid=21474174 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2811%2960393-0 |doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q34176583|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Breman|first1=Joel G.|last2=Heymann|first2=David L.|last3=Lloyd|first3=Graham|last4=McCormick|first4=Joseph B.|last5=Miatudila|first5=Malonga|last6=Murphy|first6=Frederick A.|last7=Muyembé-Tamfun|first7=Jean-Jacques|last8=Piot|first8=Peter|last9=Ruppol|first9=Jean-François|last10=Sureau|first10=Pierre|last11=van der Groen|first11=Guido|last12=Johnson|first12=Karl M.|title=Discovery and Description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and Relevance to the West African Epidemic During 2013–2016|journal=Journal of Infectious Diseases|date=15 October 2016|volume=214|issue=suppl 3|pages=S93–S101|doi=10.1093/INFDIS/JIW207|pmid=27357339|url= |pmc=5050466}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q25115033|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Breman|first1=Joel G.|last2=Heymann|first2=David L.|last3=Lloyd|first3=Graham|last4=McCormick|first4=Joseph B.|last5=Miatudila|first5=Malonga|last6=Murphy|first6=Frederick A.|last7=Muyembé-Tamfun|first7=Jean-Jacques|last8=Piot|first8=Peter|last9=Ruppol|first9=Jean-François|last10=Sureau|first10=Pierre|last11=van der Groen|first11=Guido|last12=Johnson|first12=Karl M.|title=Discovery and Description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and Relevance to the West African Epidemic During 2013–2016|journal=Journal of Infectious Diseases|date=15 October 2016|volume=214|issue=suppl 3|pages=S93–S101|doi=10.1093/INFDIS/JIW207|pmid=27357339|url= |pmc=5050466}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q25115033|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Kelly-Cirino|first1=Cassandra D|last2=Nkengasong|first2=John|last3=Kettler|first3=Hannah|last4=Tongio|first4=Isabelle|last5=Gay-Andrieu|first5=Françoise|last6=Escadafal|first6=Camille|last7=Piot|first7=Peter|last8=Peeling|first8=Rosanna W|last9=Gadde|first9=Renuka|last10=Boehme|first10=Catharina|author-link1=Catharina Boehme|title=Importance of diagnostics in epidemic and pandemic preparedness|journal=BMJ Global Health|date=February 2019|volume=4|issue=Suppl 2|pages=e001179|doi=10.1136/BMJGH-2018-001179|pmid=30815287|url= |pmc=6362765|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q62485424|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Kelly-Cirino|first1=Cassandra D|last2=Nkengasong|first2=John|last3=Kettler|first3=Hannah|last4=Tongio|first4=Isabelle|last5=Gay-Andrieu|first5=Françoise|last6=Escadafal|first6=Camille|last7=Piot|first7=Peter|last8=Peeling|first8=Rosanna W|last9=Gadde|first9=Renuka|last10=Boehme|first10=Catharina|author-link1=Catharina Boehme|title=Importance of diagnostics in epidemic and pandemic preparedness|journal=BMJ Global Health|date=February 2019|volume=4|issue=Suppl 2|pages=e001179|doi=10.1136/BMJGH-2018-001179|pmid=30815287|url= |pmc=6362765|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q62485424|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Bekker|first1=Linda-Gail|last2=Ratevosian|first2=Jirair|last3=Spencer|first3=Julia|last4=Piot|first4=Peter|last5=Beyrer|first5=Chris|title=Governance for health: the HIV response and general global health|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=1 March 2019|volume=97|issue=3|pages=170–170A|doi=10.2471/BLT.19.230417|pmid=30992627|pmc=6453319|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q64075274|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Bekker|first1=Linda-Gail|last2=Ratevosian|first2=Jirair|last3=Spencer|author-link2=Jirair Ratevosian|first3=Julia|last4=Piot|first4=Peter|last5=Beyrer|first5=Chris|title=Governance for health: the HIV response and general global health|journal=Bulletin of the World Health Organization|date=1 March 2019|volume=97|issue=3|pages=170–170A|doi=10.2471/BLT.19.230417|doi-broken-date=14 November 2024 |pmid=30992627|pmc=6453319|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q64075274|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Dwyer-Lindgren|first1=Laura|last2=Cork|first2=Michael A.|last3=Sligar|first3=Amber|last4=Steuben|first4=Krista M.|last5=Wilson|first5=Kate F.|last6=Provost|first6=Naomi R.|last7=Mayala|first7=Benjamin K.|last8=VanderHeide|first8=John D.|last9=Collison|first9=Michael L.|last10=Hall|first10=Jason B.|last11=Biehl|first11=Molly H.|last12=Carter|first12=Austin|last13=Frank|first13=Tahvi|last14=Douwes-Schultz|first14=Dirk|last15=Burstein|first15=Roy|last16=Casey|first16=Daniel C.|last17=Deshpande|first17=Aniruddha|last18=Earl|first18=Lucas|last19=El Bcheraoui|first19=Charbel|last20=Farag|first20=Tamer H.|last21=Henry|first21=Nathaniel J.|last22=Kinyoki|first22=Damaris|last23=Marczak|first23=Laurie B.|last24=Nixon|first24=Molly R.|last25=Osgood-Zimmerman|first25=Aaron|last26=Pigott|first26=David|last27=Reiner|first27=Robert C.|last28=Ross|first28=Jennifer M.|last29=Schaeffer|first29=Lauren E.|last30=Smith|first30=David L.|last31=Davis Weaver|first31=Nicole|last32=Wiens|first32=Kirsten E.|last33=Eaton|first33=Jeffrey W.|last34=Justman|first34=Jessica E.|last35=Opio|first35=Alex|last36=Sartorius|first36=Benn|last37=Tanser|first37=Frank|last38=Wabiri|first38=Njeri|last39=Piot|first39=Peter|last40=Murray|first40=Christopher J. L.|last41=Hay|first41=Simon I.|title=Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017|journal=Nature|date=15 May 2019|volume=570|issue=7760|pages=189–193|doi=10.1038/S41586-019-1200-9|pmid=31092927|pmc=6601349|bibcode=2019Natur.570..189D|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q92052925|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Dwyer-Lindgren|first1=Laura|last2=Cork|first2=Michael A.|last3=Sligar|first3=Amber|last4=Steuben|first4=Krista M.|last5=Wilson|first5=Kate F.|last6=Provost|first6=Naomi R.|last7=Mayala|first7=Benjamin K.|last8=VanderHeide|first8=John D.|last9=Collison|first9=Michael L.|last10=Hall|first10=Jason B.|last11=Biehl|first11=Molly H.|last12=Carter|first12=Austin|last13=Frank|first13=Tahvi|last14=Douwes-Schultz|first14=Dirk|last15=Burstein|first15=Roy|last16=Casey|first16=Daniel C.|last17=Deshpande|first17=Aniruddha|last18=Earl|first18=Lucas|last19=El Bcheraoui|first19=Charbel|last20=Farag|first20=Tamer H.|last21=Henry|first21=Nathaniel J.|last22=Kinyoki|first22=Damaris|last23=Marczak|first23=Laurie B.|last24=Nixon|first24=Molly R.|last25=Osgood-Zimmerman|first25=Aaron|last26=Pigott|first26=David|last27=Reiner|first27=Robert C.|last28=Ross|first28=Jennifer M.|last29=Schaeffer|first29=Lauren E.|last30=Smith|first30=David L.|last31=Davis Weaver|first31=Nicole|last32=Wiens|first32=Kirsten E.|last33=Eaton|first33=Jeffrey W.|last34=Justman|first34=Jessica E.|last35=Opio|first35=Alex|last36=Sartorius|first36=Benn|last37=Tanser|first37=Frank|last38=Wabiri|first38=Njeri|last39=Piot|first39=Peter|last40=Murray|first40=Christopher J. L.|last41=Hay|first41=Simon I.|title=Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017|journal=Nature|date=15 May 2019|volume=570|issue=7760|pages=189–193|doi=10.1038/S41586-019-1200-9|pmid=31092927|pmc=6601349|bibcode=2019Natur.570..189D|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q92052925|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|last2=Soka|first2=Moses J|last3=Spencer|first3=Julia|title=Emergent threats: lessons learnt from Ebola|journal=International Health|date=September 2019|volume=11|issue=5|pages=334–337|doi=10.1093/INTHEALTH/IHZ062|pmid=31385587|url=https://academic.oup.com/inthealth/article-pdf/11/5/334/29584164/ihz062.pdf|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q92443470|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Piot|first1=Peter|last2=Soka|first2=Moses J|last3=Spencer|first3=Julia|title=Emergent threats: lessons learnt from Ebola|journal=International Health|date=September 2019|volume=11|issue=5|pages=334–337|doi=10.1093/INTHEALTH/IHZ062|pmid=31385587|url=https://academic.oup.com/inthealth/article-pdf/11/5/334/29584164/ihz062.pdf|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q92443470|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Bausch|first1=Daniel G|last2=Piot|first2=Peter|title=Ebola Vaccines: Biomedical Advances, Human Rights Challenges|journal=The Journal of Infectious Diseases|date=11 October 2019|volume=222|issue=4|pages=521–524|doi=10.1093/INFDIS/JIZ520|pmid=31603195|url=https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiz520/5585661|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q90650057|y}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Bausch|first1=Daniel G|last2=Piot|first2=Peter|title=Ebola Vaccines: Biomedical Advances, Human Rights Challenges|journal=The Journal of Infectious Diseases|date=11 October 2019|volume=222|issue=4|pages=521–524|doi=10.1093/INFDIS/JIZ520|pmid=31603195|url=https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiz520/5585661|doi-access=free}} {{Wikidata+icon|Q90650057|y}}


==References==
== References ==
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==Further reading==
== Further reading ==
* Peter Piot – Biography (UNAIDS.org): [http://data.unaids.org/pub/Biography/2007/0207peterpiotbiog_en.pdf English]|[http://data.unaids.org/pub/Biography/2007/0207peterpiotbiog_fr.pdf Français]|[http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20080725144115/http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/AboutTheWebsite/page_not_found.asp Español] |[http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20080725144115/http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/AboutTheWebsite/page_not_found.asp Русский] |[http://data.unaids.org/pub/Biography/2007/0207peterpiotbiog_ar.pdf Arabic]
* Peter Piot – Biography (UNAIDS.org): [http://data.unaids.org/pub/Biography/2007/0207peterpiotbiog_en.pdf English]|[http://data.unaids.org/pub/Biography/2007/0207peterpiotbiog_fr.pdf Français]|[http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20080725144115/http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/AboutTheWebsite/page_not_found.asp Español] |[http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20080725144115/http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/AboutTheWebsite/page_not_found.asp Русский] |[http://data.unaids.org/pub/Biography/2007/0207peterpiotbiog_ar.pdf Arabic]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060918202802/http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/Leadership/Speeches.asp Peter Piot - Latest Speeches]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060918202802/http://www.unaids.org/en/AboutUNAIDS/Leadership/Speeches.asp Peter Piot – Latest Speeches]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304004155/http://www.notimetolose-book.com/ No Time to Lose Official Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304004155/http://www.notimetolose-book.com/ No Time to Lose Official Website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zs3m2 BBC Radio 4 ''The Life Scientific'' programme about Peter Piot and his work on ebola and HIV AIDS, February 2016]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zs3m2 BBC Radio 4 ''The Life Scientific'' programme about Peter Piot and his work on ebola and HIV AIDS, February 2016]


==External links==
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Latest revision as of 23:37, 25 November 2024

Professor
Sir Peter Piot
KCMG FRCP FFPH FMedSci
Piot in 2006
Born
Peter Karel Piot

(1949-02-17) 17 February 1949 (age 75)
NationalityBelgian, British w,
Alma materGhent University
University of Antwerp
SpouseHeidi Larson
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Imperial College London
Websitelshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/piot.peter

Sir Peter Karel, Baron Piot (born 17 February 1949)[1] is a Belgian-British microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS.

After helping discover the Ebola virus in 1976 and leading efforts to contain the first-ever recorded Ebola epidemic that same year, Piot became a pioneering researcher into AIDS. He has held key positions in the United Nations and World Health Organization involving AIDS research and management. He has also served as a professor at several universities worldwide. He is the author of 16 books and over 600 scientific articles.

Early life and education

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Piot was born in Leuven, Belgium.[1] His father was a civil servant who worked with agricultural exports, and his mother ran a construction company. Piot is the oldest of two brothers and a sister.[1]

After studying physics in the School of Engineering and Physics at Ghent University, Piot changed to medicine. During medical school, Piot received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine (DTM) from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp in Antwerp. In 1974, he received an MD degree from Ghent University.[1] In 1980, Piot received a PhD degree in clinical microbiology from the University of Antwerp.[1][2]

Career

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In 1976, while working at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Piot was part of a team that observed a Marburg-like virus in a sample of blood taken from a sick nun working in Zaire.[3][4] Piot and his colleagues subsequently traveled to Zaire as part of an International Commission set up by the Government of Zaire to help quell the outbreak.[1] The International Commission made key discoveries into how the virus spread, and traveled from village to village, spreading information and putting the ill and those who had come into contact with them into quarantine. The epidemic was already waning when the International Commission arrived, thanks to measures taken by local and national authorities, and it finally stopped in three months, after it had killed almost 300 people.[5] The events were dramatised by Mike Walker on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014 in a production by David Morley. Piot narrated the programme.[6]

Piot has received the majority of the credit for discovering Ebola, since in 1976, it was claimed he was the one to receive blood samples while working in a lab at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.[2] The samples were once claimed to be originally sent by Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, a Congolese doctor who obtained the blood samples from those sickened with a mysterious disease in then-Zaire, later discovered to be Ebola. In 2012, Piot published a memoir entitled No Time to Lose which chronicles his professional work, including the discovery of the Ebolavirus; he mentions Muyembe in passing rather than as a co-discoverer.[7] In a 2016 Journal of Infectious Disease article, co-signed by most of the actors from that first outbreak, including Peter Piot and Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the claims by both Piot and Muyembe to have played a significant role in the early discovery of Ebola have been refuted.[8] Piot stated in 2019 that "my book was not an attempt to write the history of Ebola, but more my personal experience".[9]

In the 1980s, Piot participated in collaborative projects in Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zaire. Project SIDA in Kinshasa, Zaire was the first international project on AIDS in Africa and is widely acknowledged as having provided the foundations of science's understanding of HIV infection in Africa. He was a professor of microbiology, and of public health at the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, in Antwerp, and at the University of Nairobi, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Lausanne, and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He was also a senior fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, a scholar in residence at the Ford Foundation, and a senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[2]

From 1991 to 1994, Piot was president of the International AIDS Society. In 1992, he became assistant director of the World Health Organization's Global Programme on HIV/AIDS. On 12 December 1994, he was appointed executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.[10]

From 2009 to 2010, Piot served as director of the Institute for Global Health at Imperial College London.[2]

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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In October 2010, Piot became the director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[11]

In addition to his work at LSHTM, Piot is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, UK and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2011, Amy Gutmann appointed him to serve on the International Research Panel at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

In 2014, in the face of an unprecedented Ebola epidemic in western Africa, Piot and other scientists called for the emergency release of the experimental ZMapp vaccine for use on humans before it had undergone clinical testing on humans.[12] That year, he was appointed by Director General Margaret Chan to the World Health Organization's Advisory Group on the Ebola Virus Disease Response, co-chaired by Sam Zaramba and David L. Heymann.[13] He also chaired an independent panel convened by Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine into the national and international response to the epidemic, which sharply criticised the response of the WHO and put forward ten recommendations for the body's reorganisation.[14] In February 2020, he criticised the delay in declaring the 2019–20 novel coronavirus outbreak focused on Hubei, China, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, and advocated a five-point scale for outbreaks, rather the current binary (emergency/no emergency) system.[15]

In 2020, Piot was appointed to the European Commission’s advisory panel on COVID-19, co-chaired by Ursula von der Leyen and Stella Kyriakides.[16] In the preparations for the Global Health Summit hosted by the European Commission and the G20 in May 2021, Piot co-chaired the event's High-Level Scientific Panel.[17]

Personal life

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In May 2020, Piot disclosed that he had had COVID-19.[18]

Piot is fluent in English, French, and Dutch.[2] He is married to the American anthropologist Heidi Larson.[19]

Other activities

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Awards

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Honours

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Selected filmography

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  • 2002: Jonathan Dimbleby (TV series) – episode: "The AIDS Crisis in Africa"
  • 2006: Frontline (TV series documentary) – episode: "The Age of AIDS"
  • 2006: 60 Minutes (TV series documentary) – episode: "The New Space Race/Fighting AIDS/Immortality"
  • 2009: House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic (Documentary)
  • 2014: Horizon: Ebola: The Search for a Cure (TV series documentary)
  • 2017: Heart of the Matter (documentary short)
  • 2017: Unseen Enemy (documentary)

Selected works and publications

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Selected works

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  • Piot, Peter (2013). No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses. New York; London: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-08411-5. OCLC 916025971.
  • Piot, Peter (2015). AIDS: Between Science and Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-16626-3. OCLC 946549752.

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Harden, Victoria A.; Piot, Peter (4 January 2008). "In Their Own Words... NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: Interview with Dr. Peter Piot". National Institutes of Health.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Professor Baron Peter Piot; KCMG MD PhD DTM FRCP FFPH FMedSci". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Archived from the original on 14 April 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. ^ Pattyn, S.; Groen, G.vander; Jacob, W.; Piot, P.; Courteille, G. (March 1977). "Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire". The Lancet. 309 (8011): 573–574. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(77)92002-5. PMID 65663. Wikidata ()
  4. ^ Piot, Peter; Bartos, Michael; Ghys, Peter D.; Walker, Neff; Schwartländer, Bernhard (April 2001). "The global impact of HIV/AIDS". Nature. 410 (6831): 968–973. Bibcode:2001Natur.410..968P. doi:10.1038/35073639. PMID 11309626. S2CID 4373421. Wikidata ()
  5. ^ Members of the International Commission (1978). "Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 56 (2): 271–93. PMC 2395567. PMID 307456. Wikidata ()
  6. ^ "Ebola". BBC Radio 4. 18 December 2014.
  7. ^ Piot, Peter (2013). No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses. New York; London: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-08411-5. OCLC 916025971.
  8. ^ Breman, Joel G.; Heymann, David L.; Lloyd, Graham; McCormick, Joseph B.; Miatudila, Malonga; Murphy, Frederick A.; Muyembé-Tamfun, Jean-Jacques; Piot, Peter; Ruppol, Jean-François; Sureau, Pierre; van der Groen, Guido; Johnson, Karl M. (15 October 2016). "Discovery and Description of Ebola Zaire Virus in 1976 and Relevance to the West African Epidemic During 2013–2016". Journal of Infectious Diseases. 214 (suppl 3): S93–S101. doi:10.1093/INFDIS/JIW207. PMC 5050466. PMID 27357339. Wikidata ()
  9. ^ Peralta, Eyder (4 November 2019). "This Congolese Doctor Discovered Ebola But Never Got Credit For It — Until Now". NPR.
  10. ^ Shetty, Priya (June 2008). "Peter Piot". The Lancet. 371 (9628): 1907. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60820-X. PMID 18539213. S2CID 205951166. Wikidata ()
  11. ^ Harden, Victoria A.; Piot, Peter (16 June 2010). "In Their Own Words... NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS: Dr Peter Piot Interview 3 – June 16, 2010". National Institutes of Health.
  12. ^ Dixon, Robyn (6 August 2014). "Three leading Ebola experts call for release of experimental drug". Los Angeles Times. Johannesburg.
  13. ^ "Members of the WHO Advisory Group on the Ebola Virus Disease Response". World Health Organization. September 2015. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014.
  14. ^ Moon S; et al. (2015), "Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola", Lancet, 386 (10009): 2204–2221, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00946-0, PMC 7137174, PMID 26615326
  15. ^ Peter Piot, James Barr (7 February 2020). "Coronavirus – will it become a pandemic? (LSHTM Viral S1E5)" (Podcast). London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Event occurs at 06:34–07:56. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  16. ^ COVID-19: Commission launches European team of scientific experts to strengthen EU coordination and medical response European Commission, press release of 17 March 2020.
  17. ^ Global Health Summit: Panel of Scientific Experts European Commission.
  18. ^ Draulans, Dirk (8 May 2020). "'Finally, a virus got me.' Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19". Science: AAAS.
  19. ^ "Peter Piot – Out to stop the Ebola virus he found". Financial Times. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  20. ^ Strategy Group on Health Africa Europe Foundation (AEF).
  21. ^ Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG) Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
  22. ^ Senior Advisory Board Exemplars in Global Health.
  23. ^ Board Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
  24. ^ CEPI announces new permanent board Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), press release of 24 January 2018.
  25. ^ Editorial Advisory Board The Lancet.
  26. ^ Governance Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI).
  27. ^ Olive Shisana and Peter Piot appointed to Africa Health Research Institute Board Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), press release of 31 January 2017.
  28. ^ Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research Archived 11 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR).
  29. ^ Announcing the Chair of the new HMG SCOR Board UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR), press release of 26 September 2017.
  30. ^ Advisory Panel Archived 22 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF).
  31. ^ Board of Trustees Novartis Foundation.
  32. ^ Novartis Foundation confirms new members of its Board of trustees, including new Chairman Dr. Joerg Reinhardt Novartis Foundation, press release of 27 July 2015.
  33. ^ International Advisory Board Antwerp Management School.
  34. ^ International Advisory Board Archived 14 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine Centre Virchow-Villermé.
  35. ^ Board of Advisors Global Health Corps.
  36. ^ Board of Directors Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund).
  37. ^ International Advisory Board The Lancet.
  38. ^ Peter Piot University of Washington.
  39. ^ Council World Health Summit.
  40. ^ "Past Recipients". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  41. ^ "Flanders-America Awards voor Peter Piot en duo Bruyneel/Armstrong" [Flanders-America Awards for Peter Piot and Bruyneel/Armstrong duo]. Het Nieuwsblad Mobile (in Dutch). 25 February 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  42. ^ Osaki, Tomohiro (2 June 2013). "Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize". The Japan Times Online. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  43. ^ Holmes, David (2013). "2013 Prince Mahidol Award winners announced". The Lancet. 382 (9908): 1869. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62349-1. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 24325009. S2CID 42253188.
  44. ^ histoire. "Peter Piot, Prix International 2015 / Histoire de l'Inserm". Histoire de l'Inserm (in French). Archived from the original on 27 May 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  45. ^ Maurice, John (2015). "Peter Piot wins 2015 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award". The Lancet. 385 (9974): 1170. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60610-9. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 25819690. S2CID 9672382.
  46. ^ "Previous medal winners". Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 23 January 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  47. ^ "Peter Piot". German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  48. ^ "Honorary awards" (PDF).
  49. ^ "Honours and Awards | the Gazette".

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