11 Facts About Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak is a British zoologist, consultant and public expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis.

Peter Daszak was involved in investigations into the initial outbreak which eventually developed into the COVID-19 pandemic and became a member of the World Health Organization team sent to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China.

Peter Daszak worked at the School of Life Sciences, Kingston University, in Surrey, England in the 1990s.

Peter Daszak was one of the early adopters of conservation medicine.

Peter Daszak has served on committees of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Health Organization, National Academy of Sciences, and United States Department of the Interior.

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At the time of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, Peter Daszak said "Our research shows that new approaches to reducing emerging pandemic threats at the source would be more cost-effective than trying to mobilize a global response after a disease has emerged".

Peter Daszak's research focuses on global emergent diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Nipah virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Rift Valley fever, Ebola virus, and COVID-19.

In June 2021, The Lancet published an addendum in which Peter Daszak listed his cooperation with researchers in China, and he recused himself from The Lancets inquiry commission focused on COVID-19 origins.

In 2020 Daszak was named by the World Health Organization as the sole U S -based representative on a team sent to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team that included Marion Koopmans, Hung Nguyen, and Fabian Leendertz.

In 1999, Peter Daszak received a meritorious service award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Peter Daszak is commemorated in the names of the centipede Cryptops daszaki, as well as the apicomplexan parasite Isospora daszaki.