Professor Malik Peiris, a virologist best known for his work to identify the SARS virus in 2003, resolves to learn the language of politics and economics, as well as science.
Professor Malik Peiris, a clinical and public health virologist based at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong, is best known for his work to identify the SARS virus in 2003. He resolves to learn the language of politics and economics, as well as science.
鈥淚 personally, in the small way that I can, have resolved to move beyond the laboratory, even beyond the health paradigm I鈥檝e been in, and ask questions about the year-on-year economic growth that we have all taken for granted - in nature, nothing grows forever - and I鈥檝e cut my working hours by fifty percent to study sustainable economics鈥.
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