Science with Sanjula

Saving over a million lives around the world

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Professor Sir Peter Horby, Moh Foundation Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute, describes how he came to study medicine following his initial interest in biology and how his first job on the HIV/AIDS wards led to his interest in infectious diseases.   Professor Sir Horby describes his time working with the World Health Organisation in Vietnam on the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak and subsequently setting up an infectious diseases research unit in Hanoi, his work on the West Africa Ebola epidemic, and how he adapted his skills for a higher income setting to co-lead the UK’s RECOVERY trial into COVID-19 treatments, the results of which are estimated to have saved over one million lives worldwide.