From Ebola to Covid-19, over HIV : My journey through epidemics and viruses

Speaker: Sir Peter Baron Piot

Venue: Conference Room 205, 2nd Floor, Medical Comprehensive Building, Zijingang Campus

Abstract: This lecture, with the theme of From Ebola to AIDS: My Research Journey on Epidemics and Viruses, is hosted by the Chan Chun Ha College of Integrated Health, Zhejiang University. It invites Sir Peter Baron Piot, who is an academician of the national medical academies of Belgium, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, an academician of the German Academy of Sciences, a Global Health Professor and former Dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a visiting professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the National University of Singapore, to be the keynote speaker.The lecture will be held from 14:00 to 15:30 on April 3, 2025, in Conference Room 205, 2nd Floor, Medical Comprehensive Building, Zijingang Campus. In this lecture, Sir Peter Piot will share his global health journey spanning half a century. During his speech, he will look back on his half-century of experience, envision a new landscape of global health, and explain the important role that China plays in it.