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[WHO] HKU Prof Malik Peiris proposed as adviser to International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for COVID-19 pneumonia
22 January, 2020
- Professor Malik Peiris, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU, was proposed as one of advisers to International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for Pneumonia due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
- The list of proposed members and advisors to the committee was announced on 22 January, 2020.
![Professor Malik Peiris has been named one of the 10 “Science Stars of East Asia” by leading medical journal Nature in 2018.](https://fightcovid19.hku.hk/content/uploads/2020/02/Malik_Peiris-1-1024x549.jpg)