Peter Horby

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Peter Horby
Born
Peter William Horby
Alma materUniversity College London (M.B.B.S.)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisAvian, inter-pandemic, and pandemic influenza in Vietnam
Doctoral advisorNeal Alexander
Websitewww.ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/peter-horby

Peter Horby is a British medical doctor, epidemiologist, and Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Oxford and Chair of the UK government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). He is the founder, and former Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi, Vietnam which was founded in 2006. In 2014 Peter established the Epidemic Research Group Oxford (ERGO). ERGO incorporates a number of international projects such as the European Commission funded PREPARE and the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC). In 2016 Peter became Chair of ISARIC

Horby specialises in the design of control programmes against infectious diseases. He is the Co-Chief Investigator of the RECOVERY Trial into drugs for COVID-19 (the largest clinical trial yet in the world) alongside Martin Landray.[1][2][3] On 16 June 2020, he gave a statement at 10 Downing Street alongside the Prime Minister and Chief Scientific Adviser announcing the first positive trial results of the first life-saving COVID-19 drug, Dexamethasone.[4][5] He is the primary author on the published preliminary report.[6]

Horby is one of the 23 attendees of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) [7] He is the Chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG).[8][7]

References

  1. ^ "ISRCTN - ISRCTN50189673: A randomised trial of treatments to prevent death in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 (coronavirus)". www.isrctn.com. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  2. ^ "Large-scale trial for coronavirus drugs launches in UK". Clinical Trials Arena. 6 April 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Managing clinical trials during the pandemic — Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences". www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Low-cost dexamethasone reduces death by up to one third in hospitalised patients with severe respiratory complications of COVID-19 | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  5. ^ "Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 16 June 2020". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  6. ^ Horby P, Lim WS, Emberson JR, Mafham M, Bell JL, Linsell L, et al. (July 2020). "Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 - Preliminary Report". The New England Journal of Medicine. 0 (0): null. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2021436. PMC 7383595. PMID 32678530.
  7. ^ a b Sample, Ian (24 April 2020). "Who's who on secret scientific group advising UK government?". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  8. ^ "New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group". gov.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
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