Keynote speech by Prof. Malik Peiris at the International Webinar on Social Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic - Day 02 (23rd of February 2022)

Organised by: National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka

More information on the webinar: [ Ссылка ]

Professor Malik Peiris is the Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong. He co-directs the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory and the WHO SARS-CoV-2 reference laboratory at The University of Hong Kong. Currently, he serves the WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on COVID-19. He is a clinical and public health virologist with a particular interest in emerging viral diseases at the animal-human interface – using a “One-Health” approach.

Professor Peiris has over 800 peer reviewed research publications in international scientific journals, which have been cited over 76,000 times. In recognition of his research contributions, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2006). He was also recently jointly awarded the 2021 Future Science Prize in life sciences for contributions in pathological discoveries in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and its zoonotic origin, with impact on combating COVID-19.

Professor Peiris had his undergraduate medical education in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), followed by postgraduate training in virology at the University of Oxford, UK.

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