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Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity and one of the world’s wealthiest charitable foundations. Among numerous national and international advisory roles, he is the chair of the Scientific Advisory Group of the WHO R&D Blueprint (a strategy and preparedness plan for activating research in epidemics) and a member of the WHO group setting out principles of equitable access to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines. Before joining Wellcome in 2013, he directed the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of many diseases including tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid, dengue and influenza, and trained researchers and doctors across southeast Asia. He was knighted for services to global health in 2019.
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