Jeremy Farrar

Director at the Wellcome Trust

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Jeremy Farrar Biography

Jeremy’s whole career has been dedicated to protecting and improving global health. As a researcher he specialised in infectious diseases, and he has published more than 600 papers.

Born in Singapore, Farrar lived there and in Cyprus, New Zealand and Libya as a child before moving to the UK as a teenager. He holds degrees in immunology and medicine from University College London and a doctorate in neuroimmunology from the University of Oxford. He trained as a doctor in London, Edinburgh, Melbourne, San Francisco and Oxford.

Farrar spent 18 years leading the Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where he made many pivotal advances in the understanding of diseases like tuberculosis (TB), malaria, typhoid, dengue and influenza, as well as helping to train scientists from across South-east Asia and beyond. He joined Wellcome as Director in 2013.

As part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Farrar is a member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the UK Vaccine Taskforce and the Principles Group of the ACT-Accelerator hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), and he chairs the WHO R&D Blueprint Advisory Group. As well as sharing his expertise, he champions rapid investment in research on Covid-19 testing, treatments and vaccines, and argues that everyone – not only people who live in rich countries – should benefit equally from the discoveries that result.

He has held a number of other advisory roles for governments and international bodies such as the WHO. He was named 12th in the Fortune list of World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2015 and was awarded the Memorial Medal and Ho Chi Minh City Medal from the Government of Vietnam for services to public health, medicine and research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the European Molecular Biology Organization, the US National Academies and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2018 he received the President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian of the Year Award and in 2019 was knighted for services to global health.

Farrar lives in Oxford with his wife and children. He loves all sport but he’s most passionate about cricket and still plays regularly for Steeple Aston Cricket Club. He’s also a keen walker, whether that’s in the Alps or across the Oxfordshire hills with the family dogs, Coco and Sẽp-Y.

Jeremy Farrar Videos

  • Jeremy Farrar on the global race for a Covid-19 vaccine | FT Interview
    Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, speaks to the FT's Vanessa Kortekaas about the global race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, how to...
  • Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar, Keynote speech, Rhodes Healthcare Forum
    Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar - Director of the Wellcome Trust speaks on 'The role of academia in promoting health for all' at the 4th Rhodes...
  • Jeremy Farrar keynote address, Berlin, Oct 2017
    Wellcome Director Jeremy Farrar outlines why now is the moment to #StopSuperbugs.

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