Jeremy Farrar

Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar is the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation. Jeremy is a clinician scientist who before joining the WHO was the Director of Wellcome 2013-2023 and prior to that was, for eighteen years, Director of the Clinical Research Unit Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Viet Nam, where his research interests were in infectious diseases and global health with a focus on emerging infections. He has published almost 600 articles. He was named 12th in the Fortune list of 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in 2015 and named in Politico’s Class of 2022 most influential people in Europe.  He was awarded the Memorial Medal and Ho Chi Minh City Medal from the Government of Viet Nam and in 2018 the President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian of the Year Award.  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 and was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun and Gold Ray Neck Ribbon in 2020 from the Japanese government in the name of the Emperor of Japan for contributions to global health.