Peter Daszak

Extracted Attributes

• Chair

  NASEM’s Forum on Microbial Threats

• Awards

  2000 CSIRO medal for collaborative research

• Education

  B.Sc. from Bangor University, Ph.D. from University of East London

• Membership

  NASEM Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threat

• Occupation

  Zoologist, Consultant, Disease Ecologist

• Affiliation

  Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

• Former Role

  President of EcoHealth Alliance (until January 2025)

• Nationality

  British

• Recognition

  Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% of scientists globally by citations)

• Journal Role

  Editor-in-Chief of Ecohealth journal

• Publications

  Over 300 scientific papers

• Specialization

  Disease Ecology, Zoonosis

Timeline

• Won the CSIRO medal for collaborative research for discovering chytridiomycosis causing global amphibian declines. (Source: web_search_results)

  2000-XX-XX

• Became Principal Investigator of a six-year NIH project awarded to EcoHealth Alliance, focusing on the emergence of novel zoonotic coronaviruses with a bat origin. (Source: web_search_results)

  2014-XX-XX

• SARS-CoV-2 is thought by scientists to have emerged naturally via zoonosis in late 2019. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2019-XX-XX

• Joined the World Health Organization team sent to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2020-XX-XX

• Questioned by members of U.S. Congress, an event described by virologist Angela Rasmussen as an "attack on science." (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-XX-XX

• Ceased to be the president of EcoHealth Alliance. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-01-XX

• Debarred for five years by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, citing reporting irregularities and issues with his research in China. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2025-XX-XX

Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak is a British zoologist, consultant and public expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis. He is a member of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Daszak was the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention, until January 2025. Daszak and other virologists long warned of the potential of SARS-like coronaviruses to cause epidemics like those seen in the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak or the 2012 MERS outbreak, and Daszak collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to study coronaviruses in China. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daszak became a member of the World Health Organization team sent to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Daszak became a frequent victim of criticism, accusations, and threats, obscuring research into the Origin of SARS-CoV-2. The virus is thought by scientists to have emerged naturally via zoonosis in late 2019. In 2024, Daszak was questioned by members of U.S. congress, in what virologist Angela Rasmussen warned was "essentially an attack on science." In 2025, the United States Department of Health and Human Services debarred Daszak for five years, alleging reporting irregularities and criticizing Daszak's research in China.

Web Search Results

• Peter Daszak - Wikipedia

  Peter Daszak is a British zoologist, consultant and public expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis. He is a member of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Daszak was the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention, until January 2025. [...] Starting in 2014, Daszak was Principal Investigator of a six-year NIH project which was awarded to the EcoHealth Alliance and which focused on the emergence of novel zoonotic coronaviruses with a bat origin. Among the aims of the project was to characterize the diversity and distribution of Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV) in bats, viruses with a significant risk of spillover, in southern China, based on data from spike protein sequences, infectious clone [...] Jump to content # Peter Daszak Deutsch Español Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Português Русский Українська 中文 Edit links From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British zoologist | Peter Daszak | | --- | | Daszak speaking in 2017 | | | Nationality | British | | Education | Bangor University (B.Sc.) University of East London (Ph.D.) | | Occupation | Zoologist | | Employer(s) | Kingston University University of Georgia Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Columbia University |

• [PDF] Dr. Peter Daszak, Ph.D - One Health Commission

  Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based organization which conducts research and outreach programs on global health, conservation and

• [PDF] Dr. Peter Daszak, Ph.D - Congress.gov

  Dr. Peter Daszak, Ph.D Dr. Peter Daszak is President of EcoHealth Alliance. His research on the origins and impact of emerging diseases discovered the bat origin of SARS-CoV, the drivers of Nipah virus emergence, the first global emerging disease ‘hotspots’ map, SADS coronavirus, the first case of a disease causing species extinction, and chytridiomycosis causing global amphibian declines for which he won the 2000 CSIRO medal for collaborative research. Dr. Daszak is a member of the US National [...] Academy of Medicine, the NASEM Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threat, and Chair of NASEM’s Forum on Microbial Threats. He served on the WHO R&D Blueprint program for pathogen prioritization, and the WHO-China Joint Study on the Animal Origins of COVID-19. Dr. Daszak is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecohealth, has published over 300 scientific papers, and is a WebofScience Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% of scientists globally by citations).

• Peter Daszak - global One Health Community

  Dr. Peter Daszak is President of Nature.Health.Global, a US-based organization that conducts research and outreach programs on global health, conservation and international development. Dr. Daszak’s research has been instrumental in identifying and predicting the origins and impact of emerging diseases across the globe. This includes identifying the bat origin of SARS, the drivers of Nipah virus emergence, publishing the first global emerging disease ‘hotspots’ map, discovering SADS [...] Dr. Daszak is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Chair of the NASEM’s Forum on Microbial Threats. He is a member of the NRC Advisory Committee to the US Global Change Research Program, the Supervisory Board of the One Health Platform, the One Health Commission Council of Advisors, the CEEZAD External Advisory Board, the Cosmos Club, and the Advisory Council of the Bridge Collaborative. He has served on the IOM Committee on global surveillance for emerging zoonoses, the NRC [...] the Editorial Board of Conservation Biology, One Health, GeoHealth, One Health Outlook, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecohealth. He has authored over 300 scientific papers and was listed as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2018. His work has been the focus of extensive media coverage, ranging from press articles in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Washington Post, US News & World

• Who is Peter Daszak, exec who sent taxpayer money to Wuhan lab?

  Peter Daszak, president of the New York City-based EcoHealth Alliance, secretly organized a statement issued by the influential British medical journal The

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Bangor University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  ecologist

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  1/1/2000