Jeremy farrar biography

I joined Wellcome as Director in 2013, following almost 18 years in Viet Nam researching infectious diseases. I lived and worked through avian flu, SARS-1, epidemics of drug-resistant typhoid and the emergence of HIV.

I witnessed first-hand the effects of diseases such as dengue, TB and malaria on local communities.

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Jeremy is a clinician scientist who before joining Wellcome was, for eighteen years, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam, where.

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Sir Jeremy James Farrar is a British medical researcher who has served as Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization since He was previously the director of The Wellcome Trust from to and a professor of tropical medicine at.

Farrar is a clinician scientist who before joining the WHO was between the Director of the Wellcome Trust.

The world had yet to see the shocking impacts of Ebola in West Africa, Zika in South America, and SARS-CoV-2 everywhere.

At the time, Wellcome’s commitment to cutting-edge discovery research – and major activities like the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Francis Crick Institute and Wellcome’s Africa and Asia Programmes – had already led to breakthroughs in the human genome, neuroscience, social sciences and much more.

Since then, our ambitions and horizons have grown at a breathtaking scale that even I could not have dared to dream.

There are countless moments where I am proud of Wellcome’s contribution to progress. Our response to the heart-breaking west African Ebola epid