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Peter Piot

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Professor Baron Peter Piot is Director and Professor of Global Health of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He was formerly Under Secretary General of the United Nations and founding Executive Director of UNAIDS. His career is documented in No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.

<p>A man and woman carry malnourished children at a camp for Syrians displaced by conflict, near the town of Deir al-Ballu.</p>
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The global nutrition crisis is at tipping point – the UK must act now

Peter Piot in Yambuku, northern Congo (then Zaire), in 1976, where he was part of the original team to discover the Ebola virus
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Ebola: It's frustrating that we still know too little to treat it

Congolese women and their children with malaria wait to see a doctor
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Tackling disease is key to solving global poverty

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