Peter Piot
Peter Piot (born February 17, 1949 in Leuven , Belgium ) is a Belgian doctor and microbiologist . Until the end of 2008 he was Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Managing Director of the UNAIDS organization .
Life
Piot received his medical doctorate from the University of Ghent in 1974 and was a co-discoverer of the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976 . In 1978/79 he was a senior scientist for infectious diseases at the University of Washington in Seattle . In 1980 he graduated with a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Antwerp and was then head of the Infection and Immunity Department at the Institute for Tropical Medicine until 1992 .
In the 1980s he started and expanded various joint projects against AIDS in the African countries Burundi , Ivory Coast , Kenya and Tanzania as well as the SIDA project in Kinshasa / Zaire, which was the first international HIV / AIDS project in developing countries.
In 1986/87 he was Associate Professor at the University of Nairobi and from 1988 to 1992 also Associate Professor of Public Health at the Free University of Brussels .
From 1991 to 1994 Piot was President of the International AIDS Society (IAS). In 1992 he became deputy director of the Global Program on AIDS (English: Global Program on AIDS ) of the World Health Organization (WHO).
On December 12, 1994, he was appointed Under-Secretary-General of the UN and first Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS). Piot resigned from this office on December 31, 2008, and Michel Sidibé was appointed as his successor .
In 2010 he became Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Bloomsbury, London.
In 1995 King Albert II of Belgium knighted Piot with the title of "Baron". He is a member of the Medical Institute of the National Academy of Science in the United States, the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium and the Royal College of Physicians in London.
Peter Piot is the author of 15 books and over 500 scientific articles. He has received numerous awards for scientific and social achievements, including the Prince Mahidol Prize in 2013 and the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award as well as the Robert Koch Medal and the Prix International de l'INSERM in 2015 . On October 8, 2014, an asteroid was named after him: (19175) Peterpiot . In 2018 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Web links
- Member Post by Peter Piot at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Literature by and about Peter Piot in the catalog of the German National Library
- International AIDS Society (IAS )
Individual evidence
- ^ S. Pattyn, G. vander Groen, W. Jacob, P. Piot and G. Courteille: Isolation of Marburg-Like Virus from a Case of Hæmorrhagic Fever in Zaire. In: The Lancet . Volume 309, No. 8011, 1977, pp. 573-574, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (77) 92002-5
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| SURNAME | Piot, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian microbiologist and director of UNAIDS |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leuven , Belgium |