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What’s the likelihood of another influenza like virus emerging in the next 5-10 years? Should we be researching animal species that are resistant to various diseases in preparation for the next epidemic? Peter Piot answers audience questions following his talk.
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Peter Piot is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a Handa Professor of Global Health. He is the first Chair to lead Her Majesty’s Government’s Strategic Coherence of ODA-funded Research (SCOR) Board. He is Vice-Chair of the board of the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund in Tokyo, Vice-Chair of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) board, Chair of the Global Burden of Disease Independent Advisory Committee and Chair of the King Baudouin Foundation US. He is a member of the board for the African Health Research Institute, in Durban, and the Public Health Foundation of India and a member of the Oxford Martin Commission on Future Generations. He was the Chair of the MRC Global Health Group and a member of the MRC Strategy Board. Previously he was President of the International AIDS Society, Chair of the WHO Ebola Science Committee and Chair of the European Forum for Forward Looking Activities.
This talk and Q&A was filmed in the Ri on 29 June 2018.
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Super interesting.
super scary this should be the number one priority in the world
We might be able to be ready for pandemic if it involves a pathogen that is just a mutation of something we've already seen, but we are completely unprepared to respond efficiently to the arrival of a truly novel pathogen. There doesn't seem to be anything in current medical training that would specifically equip physicians to recognize and effectively respond to a novel pathogen. We would waste a lot of critical time looking in the wrong places.