Jeremy Ferrar, Director of Welcome Trust

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bob saffion sits down with Jeremy ferrar, director of welcome trust. Welcoming trust is one of the world's largest n g os dedicated to scientific research and impact. Ferrar: We're only two years into this pandemic, and this will not be the last variant. How much should we all be hunkering down? Yes, perennial question. It keeps coming back. And we keep reacting to events, rather than being ahead of them.

Sir Jeremy Farrar is UK’s pre-eminent scientific authority on Covid-19 and the chief executive at the research foundation Wellcome Trust. He joins Rapid Response to discuss the latest learnings of the Omicron variant – and offers a framework for reacting to the uncertainty. Farrar, whose research specializes in infectious diseases, also shares the two most important leadership lessons he’s learned during the pandemic: find time for yourself, and take warnings seriously. “Humanity often finds ways of going through some really bad periods to get to a good place. And I think we're going through a bad period at the moment,” Farrar says.

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