What We Have Learnt from the Pandemic
By Jeremy Farrar | 02 August 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the critical role of science in our world. Sir Jeremy Farrar brings both his expertise in infectious diseases and his commitment to improving global health as he dissects the role of science in society. With a comprehensive reflection on the pandemic’s many consequences, he asks questions on access to care, equity in health, and the role of the public in science.
About the Expert
Sir Jeremy Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust—a politically and financially independent global charitable foundation that exists to fund science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. Jeremy is a clinician scientist who, before joining Wellcome, was the Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam for eighteen years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences UK, the National Academies USA, the European Molecular Biology Organisation and a Fellow of The Royal Society. Jeremy was knighted in the Queen’s 2018 New Year Honours for services to Global Health.
