Professor Sir Peter Horby
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Muriel Lunn
muriel.lunn@ndm.ox.ac.uk
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Emerging infectious diseases
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Peter Horby
Moh Family Foundation Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health
- Director, Pandemic Sciences Institute
- Executive Director, ISARIC
PANDEMIC SCIENCES INSTITUTE
Sir Peter Horby is Moh Family Foundation Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health at the University of Oxford and the Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute. The Pandemic Sciences Institute is a multidisciplinary initiative to create collaborative science-driven solutions to identify, prepare for, and counter pandemic threats. He is also Executive Director of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC), a consortium of international, national and local research networks whose research activities span 134 countries worldwide.
He is Co-Chief Investigator of the RECOVERY trial of treatments for viral pneumonia.
He has advised the World Health Organisation, the UK Government and other agencies on epidemic preparedness, clinical research and clinical trial design for epidemic infectious diseases.
He is the former, and founding, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Hanoi, Vietnam. The unit was established in early 2006 and conducts research on infectious diseases which crosses the disciplines of basic science, medical science and public health.
RECOVERY TRIALS RESULTS

EFFECT OF DEXAMETHASONE ON 28-DAY MORTALITY IN SEVERE COVID-19.

- Gail Carson
Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, NDM Research Building, United Kingdom
- Janet Scott
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Recent publications
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Randomised controlled trials for mpox in endemic countries.
Journal article
Rojek A. et al, (2023), Lancet Infect Dis
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Higher dose corticosteroids in hospitalised COVID-19 patients with hypoxia but not requiring ventilatory support (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
Preprint
Horby PW. et al, (2022)
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An evaluation of global Chikungunya clinical management guidelines: A systematic review
Journal article
Webb E. et al, (2022), eClinicalMedicine, 54, 101672 - 101672
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Preparing for pandemics: a systematic review of pandemic influenza clinical management guidelines
Journal article
Rigby I. et al, (2022), BMC Medicine, 20
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Human infection with a reassortment avian influenza A H3N8 virus: an epidemiological investigation study.
Journal article
Bao P. et al, (2022), Nature communications, 13