WHO appoints Jeremy Farrar as Chief Scientist

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: December 15 2022

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The World Health Organization has named Jeremy Farrar as its new Chief Scientist.
He replaces Soumya Swaminathan, who was the UN health agency’s first appointee to the job, just ahead of the pandemic.
Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust, and will join WHO in the second quarter of 2023.
Before joining Wellcome in 2013, Farrar, a clinician scientist, spent 17 years as Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam where his research interests were in global health with a focus on emerging infectious diseases.

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