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Studio Art Talks w/Robbin MilneWuhan Wednesday #29Chapter 54- Sir Jeremy Farrar: Mastermind of the COVID Cover-UpThe Wuhan Cover-up and The Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race. By Robert F Kennedy Jr. (read for educational purposes only). 2024-09-121h 16
The Oxford ColloquyThe Pandemic People: Sir Jeremy FarrarSir Andrew Pollard talks to Sir Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation and previously the director of The Wellcome Trust in the UK. Andrew Pollard's guest on this podcast is Sir Jeremy Farrar, who serves as the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation and held the position of director at the Wellcome Trust in the UK from 2013 to 2023.
Sir Farrar is a clinician-scientist who served for two terms at the Wellcome Trust. Besides overseeing a significant increase in the Trust's endowment and annual spending, he played a key role in the race to develop COVID-19 vaccines...2024-03-0434 minThe Oxford ColloquyThe Pandemic People: Sir Jeremy FarrahSir Andrew Pollard talks to Sir Jeremy Farrah, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation and previously the director of The Wellcome Trust in the UK. Andrew Pollard's guest on this podcast is Sir Jeremy Farrah, who serves as the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation and held the position of director at the Wellcome Trust in the UK from 2013 to 2023.
Sir Farrar is a clinician-scientist who served for two terms at the Wellcome Trust. Besides overseeing a significant increase in the Trust's endowment and annual spending, he played a key role in the race to develop COVID-19 vaccines...2024-03-0434 min
Contain This: The Latest in Global Health SecurityA conversation with Sir Jeremy Farrar, WHO’s new Chief ScientistOur guest this week is Sir Jeremy Farrar, the World Health Organization’s new Chief Scientist, who took up the role earlier this year. As Chief Scientist, Dr Farrar oversees WHO’s science division, bringing together the best brains in science and innovation from around the world. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Farrar was the director of the Wellcome Trust, and prior to that he served as the director of the Oxford Clinical Research Unit at the hospital for tropical diseases in Vietnam for 17 years.In this episode, we discuss:Dr Farrar’s priori...2023-08-2218 min
Collecting COVID: Oral HistoriesProfessor Martin LandrayGeorgina Ferry interviews Sir Martin Landray, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, 27 October 2022. Topics discussed include (00:00:19) early interest in medicine and medical school at University of Birmingham, interest in clinical pharmacology, clinical lectureship at Birmingham and attainment of PhD, interest in clinical trials, the work of Richard Peto and Rory Collins on randomised trial at Oxford; (00:15:29) The Heart Protection Study and work in the Clinical Trial Service Unit; (00:22:22) work designing clinical trials, including relating to lowering cholesterol in people with kidney disease and work with Louise Bowman; (00:25:30) changes to rules and regulations around modern clinical trials; (00:40:09) first awareness of COVID-19, early...2023-03-301h 27
Beyond The NewsBeyond The News 119https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1709123/tory-mp-covid-vaccine-inflaming-heart-arteries-commons-debate-update
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11532589/Five-care-home-workers-lost-jobs-refusing-Covid-jab-fairly-sacked.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/15/stop-using-equality-laws-restrict-free-speech-universities-warned/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/25/drug-firms-giving-mps-hidden-funding-research-shows
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11532603/The-World-Health-Organization-names-Sir-Jeremy-Farrar-new-chief-scientist.html
https://www.politico.eu/article/pfizer-coronavirus-albert-bourla-europea-union-refuses-testify/2022-12-171h 03
BBC Inside ScienceTurtle Voices, a Pandemic Retrospective and a Nose-Picking PrimateNew recordings featuring the voices of 53 species of turtle, caecilian and tuatara previously thought to be silent have illuminated the evolutionary origins of vocal communication. Gabriel Jorgevich-Cohen a PhD student at the University of Zurich has travelled the world collecting recordings and summarised his findings in Nature Communications this week. He spoke to BBC science correspondent Georgina Rannard who explains his findings, what they mean, and shows us some of her favourite turtle sounds. What was it like to advise the government during the height of the pandemic? How soon did experts realise the colossal impact Covid...2022-11-2431 minCollecting COVID: Oral HistoriesProfessor John Bell (part one)Georgina Ferry interviews Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, 22 February 2022. Topics discussed include (00:00:18) JB's early interest and training in medicine, work with Sir David Weatherall, studies as Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and Stanford and later work at Oxford including as Nuffield Chair of Medicine and Regius Professor of Medicine; (00:01:10) interest in the mechanisms of different diseases and molecular medicine; (00:02:12) the evolution and expansion of medicine at Oxford; (00:07:05) involvement in public and national bodies, including the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research, Roche and work with David Cooksey; (00:12:44) nomination as Life Sciences Champion for...2022-11-0249 min
DiscoveryThe Evidence: How pandemics endSix and a half million dead. More than a hundred times that infected. The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe. But in the final months of the third year of this health crisis, some now claim it’s all over.Scientists with key roles in the global response join Claudia Hammond to consider the evidence behind the declarations that the pandemic has finished and they set out how, officially, this global health crisis will be brought to an end. They reject claims that the pandemic is over, but say the emergency phase of th...2022-10-0150 min
Big Picture Medicine#103 Sir Jeremy Farrar on How to Spend £16bn for Good (Director, Wellcome Trust)How do you spend £16 billion to improve the world’s health?
That is the job of Sir Jeremy Farrar, the Director of the Wellcome Trust. In 1936, British pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome left his fortune to improve the world’s health. Now Sir Jeremy must work out what to do with £16 billion over the next decade — and where to most effectively spend it.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The Third Role of Philanthropy
2:53 Appetite for Risk
5:38 What's Broken in Science Funding
8:16 Generalism vs Specialism
10:12 Why Are You Slow?
14:49 Sexy v...2022-09-2935 minCollecting COVID: Oral HistoriesProfessor Peter HorbyGeorgina Ferry interviews Sir Peter Horby, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, 6 December 2021. Topics discussed include (00:00:45) PH's early training in medicine, interest in biology and infectious diseases; (00:02:38) PH's first job working on a HIV ward at Middlesex Hospital and later the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, work in Vietnam on SARS-1 in 2003 and in Hanoi for the World Health Organisation, work with Jeremy Farrar particularly with regards to opening the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases; (00:05:22) main threats for Vietnam, in terms of infectious disease outbreaks, work with Professor Liam, resurgence of H5N1 bird flu in 2003-4; (00:07:34) controls required to...2022-07-291h 13
The Branded and Gilded LifeHow do you make people listen to a catalog?The ones that resembled phone directories are long gone.They used to be a staple of the big chains for holiday shopping over the years.The internet ensured that it was no longer necessary to print them.So why did IKEA move out of a catalog into a podcast?And why would anyone want to listen?Put yourself in IKEA's position - catalogs are getting outdated but if they're your most potent marketing weapon, you have to find other ways to get the same traction.So, how do...2022-06-1200 min
Masters of ScaleRapid Response: Lessons of Omicron, w/Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome TrustSir Jeremy Farrar is UK’s pre-eminent scientific authority on Covid-19 and the chief executive at the research foundation Wellcome Trust. He joins Rapid Response to discuss the latest learnings of the Omicron variant – and offers a framework for reacting to the uncertainty. Farrar, whose research specializes in infectious diseases, also shares the two most important leadership lessons he’s learned during the pandemic: find time for yourself, and take warnings seriously. “Humanity often finds ways of going through some really bad periods to get to a good place. And I think we're going through a bad period at the mome...2022-01-2028 min
Rapid ResponseLessons of Omicron, w/Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy FarrarSir Jeremy Farrar is UK’s pre-eminent scientific authority on Covid-19 and the chief executive at the research foundation Wellcome Trust. He joins Rapid Response to discuss the latest learnings of the Omicron variant – and offers a framework for reacting to the uncertainty. Farrar, whose research specializes in infectious diseases, also shares the two most important leadership lessons he’s learned during the pandemic: find time for yourself, and take warnings seriously. “Humanity often finds ways of going through some really bad periods to get to a good place. And I think we're going through a bad period at the mome...2022-01-2028 minDiscoveryThe Evidence: When will the pandemic end?Everybody hopes that the new super-charged Omicron variant of coronavirus will be less severe, but even if it is, it’s spreading so fast and infecting so many people, health services around the world could still buckle under the strain.Two years into the pandemic, Claudia Hammond is joined by two world-leading scientists to discuss the impact of Omicron and to review what the world has got right in its response to coronavirus, and what it has got very, very wrong.As many countries roll out and plan for booster campaigns in the face of th...2021-12-2550 min
The MicroscopistsSir Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust)#35 — You’re in for a treat in this episode of The Microscopists as we’re joined by Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome. We learn more about Jeremy’s work as an infectious diseases specialist, his rugby- and cricket-playing pedigree, being a member of SAGE during COVID, and unusual wallpapers. In this inspiring episode, Jeremy also reveals his ideal dinner party guests, how to cope with imposter syndrome, the wonders of All-Bran, and how he stays curious. Tune in to hear more!Watch or Listen to all episodes of The Microscopists here: https://themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/2021-12-031h 07
IfG EventsIn conversation with Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome TrustSir Jeremy Farrar has been at the heart of the global fight against Covid-19. As head of one the world’s most influential medical research charities and a leading member of SAGE, he has played a decisive role as complex decisions were taken to meet the rapidly-evolving threat of the pandemic.Sir Jeremy discussed his new book, Spike – The Virus v The People: The Inside Story, with Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government. The book, co- authored with the Financial Times science columnist, Anjana Ahuja, sets out his reflections on the extraordinary last 18 months and puts forwa...2021-07-2859 min
Institute for GovernmentIn conversation with Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome TrustSir Jeremy Farrar has been at the heart of the global fight against Covid-19. As head of one the world’s most influential medical research charities and a leading member of SAGE, he has played a decisive role as complex decisions were taken to meet the rapidly-evolving threat of the pandemic.
Sir Jeremy discussed his new book, Spike – The Virus v The People: The Inside Story, with Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government. The book, co- authored with the Financial Times science columnist, Anjana Ahuja, sets out his reflections on the extraordinary last 18 months and puts forward his idea...2021-07-2758 min
Rapid SequenceCOVID-19 vaccines: one step towards the beginning of the end of the global pandemic?This month's podcast is taken from our first ever live broadcast with Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar (@JeremyFarrar) and Professor Tim Cook (@doctimcook). Mike Charlesworth (@Miko_Charleswor) and Louise Savic (@LouiseSavic) ask questions all about their new paper, which discusses everything to do with the COVID-19 vaccines. Enjoy!
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Best of TodaySir Jeremy Farrar’s Today programmeSir Jeremy Farrar, the director of the health research foundation Wellcome Trust, guest edits Today along the theme of uncertainty and clarity in complex times. Sir Jeremy speaks to Dr Anthony Fauci about mixing politics and science, and we hear from Erna Solberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, on leading in uncertain times. Author Elif Shafak gives a more literary take on uncertainty, and England cricketers Sir Andrew Strauss and Nat Sciver discuss how elite sport has adapted in 2020. Also, a special performance from the Wellcome Voices choir. With Nick Robinson and Simon Jack.(Image: Sir Jeremy...2020-12-2850 min
Desert Island DiscsProfessor Sir Jeremy FarrarProfessor Sir Jeremy Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation which funds scientific research. He is a member of Sage, the scientific group currently advising the government on Covid-19.He is the youngest of six children and was born in Singapore. His mother was an artist and his father was a teacher, who worked around the world, and the family lived in New Zealand, Cyprus and Libya.After struggling to win a place a medical school, he trained as a doctor in London and then moved to Edinburgh to work as...2020-12-0637 min
Awakening#31 This Pandemic was all planned and Bill Gates is the Problem - Mindwars (Chris Ryan)Another collaboration this week between mindwars and the awakening podcast
Topics discussed
- Bill Gates comes to the roundtable with the English Prime minister Boris Johnson to help the vaccine roll out for Britain.
- Chief medical officer Chris Witty receives $40 million for a research project from the Gates foundation.
- Chief scientific advisor and former executive with Glaxo smith Kline sir Patrick Vallance still has £600000 worth of shares with GSK.
- Jeremy Farrar, scientific advisory group emergencies (SAGE) board member of the Global preparedness monitoring group(GPMB) and director of the welcome trust.
- Ticketmaster going forward with digital t...2020-11-1426 min
Sophy Ridge On SundayGive me a (circuit) break? | Michael Gove & Sir Jeremy FarrarCabinet Office minister Michael Gove says the government is not planning another national lockdown. He slams Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham for "posturing" over new restrictions, and raises the prospect of more financial support for people self-isolating. SAGE member Sir Jeremy Farrar says it's not too late for a "circuit break" lockdown, but that one is needed "now".2020-10-1853 min
The InterviewSir Jeremy Farrar: 'I do believe there will be a vaccine' in 2020 and 2021Amid the talk of spikes and second waves one thing is clear – people predicting an early end to the coronavirus pandemic are indulging in wishful thinking. Can we find a way of living with Covid-19 that respects the science while mitigating the damage being done to our economic and social lives? Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust and a key scientific adviser to the UK government. How dangerous is the moment we’re in?(Photo: Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust)2020-08-0522 minSophy Ridge On SundayHad enough of experts? | Michael Gove & Sir Jeremy FarrarMichael Gove says that accusations that Boris Johnson failed to show leadership in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak are "grotesque". He refuses to say why protective equipment was sent to China when there are shortages in the UK. Sir Jeremy Farrar, a key government adviser, explains that the UK has probably passed the coronavirus peak... for now.2020-04-1945 min
Leading with James AshtonEpisode 9 - Wellcome Trust and ParkrunSir Jeremy Farrar and Nick Pearson join James Ashton to discuss taking risks, campaigning voices and making a difference in the world’s wellbeing. Sir Jeremy Farrar is director of the Wellcome Trust, the British medical charity that spends close to £1bn every year to improve global health through research and education funded by a £26bn endowment. Wellcome has spent 25 years unravelling the human genome and has also been involved in breakthroughs that track the inner workings of the brain, diagnose prostate cancer and tackle ebola outbreaks. Before joining Wellcome six year...2019-07-0241 min