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Dr.Anders Tegnell, Sweden
Wikipedia Tegnell obtained a PhD in Medicine from Linköping University in 2003 and a MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2004. From 1990 to 1993 he worked for the WHO in Laos to create vaccination programs.[6] In an interview with Expressen, he describes his on-site work for the WHO with a Swedish expert team during the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire as a formative experience.[7] From 2002 to 2003 he also worked as a national expert for the European Commission to prepare at the EU level for public health threats such as smallpox and other infectious diseases.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc, 2004)
Swine Flu vaccination problems, also here.
Dr.Johan Giesecke
Giesecke received an MSc in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1992, after which he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the school.
From 1995 to 2005, Giesecke served as state epidemiologist of Sweden. After this, he was Chief Scientist at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control from 2005 to 2014. As of 2020, Giesecke is a member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards of the World Health Organization,
Dr.John Lee
Wikipedia ) an English consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital and formerly clinical professor of pathology at Hull York Medical School. Lee gained his medical degree, a BSc and a PhD in physiology at University College London.
Dr.John Ioannidis
May 1, 2020: In Wired: how he's now a pariah.
He graduated in the top rank of his class at the University of Athens Medical School, then attended Harvard University for his medical residency in internal medicine. He did a fellowship at Tufts University for infectious disease.
Sept. 2015: In the British Medical Journal: interview on likes and dislike
Stanford Magazine 2012 article
Dr.Bruce Aylward
Aylward is Canadian by nationality and a physician-epidemiologist by training. Originally from St. Johns, Newfoundland, he did his medical training at Memorial University of Newfoundland,[4] the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[citation needed]
Aylward joined the World Health Organization in 1992
Sir Patrick Vallance,
In 1978 he gained admission to study medicine at St George's, University of London,[4][5] where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981 followed by a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1984.[1] At St George's, he was a student of Joe Collier, professor of medicines policy.[4] In addition to Collier, he has been inspired by a physician Tom Pilkington and former regius professor of physic at Cambridge, Sir Keith Peters.[4]
In March 2018, Vallance left GSK and was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, replacing Mark Walport.[28] In this role he leads the Government Office for Science, advising the prime minister and the cabinet.[29][30] In 2018, he was one of nine scientific advisers who, in a paper in Nature, called for "inclusive, rigorous, transparent, and accessible information for policy makers" and supported the Evidence-Based Research Network, established in 2016, to "lobby for all proposals for new research to be supported by references to systematic reviews of relevant existing research".
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
PhD, Stanford University, Economics (2000)
MD, Stanford University (1997)
Prof. Neil Ferguson
Dr.Anthony Fauci
Fauci attended medical school at Cornell University Medical College where he graduated first in his class with a Doctor of Medicine in 1966. He then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, now known as New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine.
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