Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest nongovernmental science funders, will step down early next year to become the chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). He will replace Soumya Swaminathan, the first person to hold the post. Swaminathan, a pediatrician, announced last month that she would be leaving to focus on public health in India.
During Farrar’s decade at the helm of Wellcome, the organization’s focus has broadened from basic biomedical science to global health concerns, including mental health, the health effects of climate change, and infectious diseases. During the devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014–15, Wellcome funded a series of groundbreaking vaccine and treatment trials. At the time, Farrar criticized WHO—and the rest of the world—for not acting fast enough to stem the outbreak.
— Science
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