2015.01.25 伦敦卫生和热带医学学院的院长，彼得-皮奥特教授

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Peter Piot.

As a microbiologist he is known for his research into viruses and into the public health aspects of sexually transmitted diseases, and, more recently, on the politics of AIDS and global health. Born in Leuven in Belgium, he studied medicine and in 1976, as a young researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, he was sent a blood sample of a Belgian nun living in what was then Zaire who had fallen ill with a mysterious disease. On investigation, Piot and his colleagues realised it was a virus they'd not seen before which they went on to identify as Ebola. He then travelled to Zaire to help quell the outbreak.

Later, back in Antwerp, he developed an interest in sexually transmitted diseases and joined the World Health Organisation's Global Programme on HIV/AIDS in 1992. Appointed as Executive Director of the newly created Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in late 1994 his major successes were putting AIDS on the political agenda and achieving a reduction in the price of antiretroviral drugs.



克斯蒂-杨的弃儿是伦敦卫生和热带医学学院的院长，彼得-皮奥特教授。

作为一名微生物学家，他以研究病毒和性传播疾病的公共卫生方面而闻名，最近还研究了艾滋病的政治和全球健康。他出生于比利时的鲁汶，学习医学。1976年，作为安特卫普热带医学研究所的一名年轻研究员，他收到了一位居住在当时的扎伊尔的比利时修女的血液样本，她患上了一种神秘的疾病。经过调查，皮奥特和他的同事意识到这是一种他们以前没有见过的病毒，他们后来确定为埃博拉病毒。他随后前往扎伊尔，帮助平息疫情。

后来，在安特卫普，他对性传播疾病产生了兴趣，并于1992年加入了世界卫生组织的艾滋病毒/艾滋病全球项目。1994年底，他被任命为新成立的联合国艾滋病毒/艾滋病联合规划署的执行主任，他的主要成就是将艾滋病列入政治议程并实现了抗逆转录病毒药物的降价。