Jeremy Farrar

Jeremy Farrar

Jeremy Farrar has been the Chief Scientist at the WHO since May 2023. In that role he helps ensure WHO is committed to science and evidence and that innovation and high-quality health products, policies and services are available equitably to everyone, everywhere. 

Jeremy is a clinician scientist who before joining the WHO was between 2013-2023 Director of the Wellcome Trust. Between 1996-2013 he was Director of the Clinical Research Unit Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City Viet Nam. Dr Farrar trained in neurology and infectious diseases in London, Edinburgh, Oxford and in Melbourne. He has a PhD in Immunology from the University of Oxford in partnership with the University of California in San Francisco and has over 600 publications. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences UK, the National Academies USA, the European Molecular Biology Organization and a Fellow of The Royal Society.