No Time to Lose: A Life In Pursuit Of Deadly Viruses - Softcover

Piot, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393345513 ISBN 13: 9780393345513

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

Peter Piot has had an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease - the Ebola virus - was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS. He travelled throughout Africa, leading the first international AIDS initiatives there. Then, as founder and director of UNAIDS, he negotiated policies with leaders from Fidel Castro to Thabo Mbeki and helped turn the tide of the epidemic. Candid and engrossing, No Time to Lose captures the urgency and excitement of being on the front lines in the fight against today's deadliest diseases.

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Review:

"No Time to Lose will serve as an inspiration to anyone looking to understand, or break into, global health research and policy." Times Higher Education "...offers an inspirational account of one person's career and how Piot's following his heart on science, integrity, and justice helped change our world for the better." Science "An invaluable portrait...We need more people like Peter Piot who will rise to the occasion with spirit and passion." The Wall Street Journal "[A] fascinating account of the complex behavioural responses that epidemics trigger among their human hosts." Nature "A riveting read." --The Lancet

About the Author:

Peter Piot is Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health. He was formerly Under Secretary General of the United Nations and founding Executive Director of UNAIDS. He has been a Professor in Antwerp, Nairobi and Paris, and senior Fellow at the University of Washington and at the Gates Foundation, and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation. He was knighted as a Baron in his native Belgium in 1995. From 1991 to 1994 he was president of the International AIDS Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393345513
• ISBN 13: 9780393345513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416