Sir Jeremy James Farrar was born on 1 September 1961 and is a British medical researcher who has served as chief scientist at the World Health Organization since 2023.
18 Facts About Jeremy Farrar
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Jeremy Farrar was previously the director of the Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford.
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Jeremy Farrar's father taught English and his mother was a writer and artist.
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Jeremy Farrar was educated at Churcher's College and UCL Medical School, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in immunology in 1983 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1986.
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Jeremy Farrar completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford in 1998 on myasthenia gravis.
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From 1996 until 2013, Jeremy Farrar was Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Jeremy Farrar was Professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford from 2000 until 2013.
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In 2013, Jeremy Farrar was appointed Director of the Wellcome Trust.
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Jeremy Farrar is a member of the Health and Biomedical Sciences International Advisory Council at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore.
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Jeremy Farrar has served on a number of WHO committees, co-chairing the World Health Organization's working group on dengue vaccines from 2015 until 2016.
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Jeremy Farrar has served as a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, led by Patrick Vallance, and Public Health England's Serology Working Group.
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Jeremy Farrar wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian on Dec 4,2021 stating he feared not enough was being done to vaccinate people in poor nations against COVID-19.
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Jeremy Farrar is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Jeremy Farrar was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2005 New Year Honours for services to healthcare, especially the prevention of tropical diseases, in Vietnam.
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Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust-funded Oxford University Clinical Research Unit.
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Jeremy Farrar was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
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Jeremy Farrar was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Global Health.
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Jeremy Farrar has been married to Christiane Dolecek, an Austrian-born typhoid researcher, since 1998.