Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak is a British-born zoologist and disease ecologist who served as President of EcoHealth Alliance, a US-based nonprofit organization focused on global health and pandemic prevention, until January 2025. He is now President of the nonprofit Nature Health Global. His research has focused on the origins and drivers of emerging zoonotic diseases, including identifying the bat origin of SARS and publishing global emerging disease hotspots maps. He is best known for his work on disease ecology and for collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on coronavirus research, which drew significant public attention following the COVID-19 pandemic.