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Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies - Wikipedia

The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is a British Government body that advises central government in emergencies. It is usually chaired by the United Kingdom's Chief Scientific en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientifi…

Adviser, currently Sir Patrick Vallance.

From 2012 to 2018, Patrick Vallance was President of Research and Development at global pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Under his leadership, new medicines for cancer, asthma, autoimmune diseases and HIV infection were

discovered and approved for use worldwide.

In March 2020, as the government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Vallance appeared alongside prime minister Boris Johnson and the Chief Medical Officer for England, Chris Whitty, in televised briefings on the COVID-19 pandemic.

From 2009

to 2015, Chris Whitty was Chief Scientific Adviser and director of research for the Department for International Development (DFID). Whitty led the Research and Evidence Division, which worked on health, agriculture, climate change, energy, infrastructure, economic and governance

research. During this time, with co-authors Neil Ferguson and Jeremy Farrar, he wrote an article in Nature titled "Infectious disease: Tough choices to reduce Ebola transmission", explaining the UK government's response to Ebola in support of the government of Sierra Leone,

which he took a leading role in designing,

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Neil Ferguson headed the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team.

On 5 May 2020, it emerged that Ferguson had resigned from his position as a government advisor on the Scientific Advisory Group for

Emergencies (SAGE) committee after admitting to "undermining" the government's messages on social distancing by trysting with a married woman, Antonia Staats. Instead of social distinguish and masking up he was nailing his side piece raw dog. There was no accounting of if

fluids were tracked and traced once they had been spurted.

Sir Jeremy James Farrar OBE FRCP FRS FMedSci (born 1 September 1961) is a British medical researcher and director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013.

In July 2015, Farrar co-authored a paper in The New England Journal of

Medicine (with Adel Mahmoud and Stanley A. Plotkin), titled "Establishing a Global Vaccine-Development Fund", that led to the founding in 2017 of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

CEPI is focused on the World Health Organization's (WHO) "blueprint

priority diseases".

CEPI was conceived in 2015 and formally launched in 2017 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. It was co-founded and co-funded with US$460 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the governments of India

and Norway, and was later joined by the European Union (2019) and the United Kingdom (2020).

In 1957, Plotkin wanted to join the US Air Force so that he could learn to fly, but instead he went to work for the Epidemic Intelligence Service.

Creation of the Epidemic Intelligence

Service was proposed by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, chief of epidemiologic services, communicable disease center at the U.S. Public Health Service on March 30, 1951.

In the 2011 film Contagion, the character Doctor Erin Mears (portrayed by Kate Winslet) is a physician and

investigator with the Epidemic Intelligence Service who was tasked by the CDC to discover the origin of a highly contagious and deadly virus known as MEV-1 which was rapidly spreading throughout the world following initial outbreaks in Kowloon, Hong Kong and

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Scott Z. Burns consulted with representatives of the World Health Organization as well as medical experts such as W. Ian Lipkin and Larry Brilliant.

As the film continued to regain popularity, the cast reunited through an infomercial PSA in partnership

with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in March 2020.

In 1918, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons received a $5 million endowment from the estate of mining magnate Joseph Raphael De Lamar to establish an educational program in

public health, which led to what would become the School of Public Health.

De Lamar left a large sum, estimated at $10,000,000, to the Harvard University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University for research into

the causes of disease and for the promulgation through lectures, publications, and otherwise of the principles of correct living.

De LeMarr left an estate worth $29 million to his daughter, who continued living in the house for a short time before moving to an apartment at

740 Park Avenue.

In 1937, one of the first well-known 740 Park Avenue residents was John D. Rockefeller Jr., who moved into 15/16B, a duplex that many still consider New York's crown jewel apartment. According to New York City real estate lore, "whoever inherits the biggest

penthouse at 740 inherits the throne of New York society itself." In 1971, Saul Steinberg bought that triplex for $285,000 and after two divorces sold it to Stephen Schwarzman for "slightly above or below $30 million" in 2000.

Applicants who have sought to purchase units in the

building but have been refused include Barbra Streisand, Neil Sedaka and Russian billionaire Leonard Blavatnik.

In 1997, Blavatnik Access Industries united with Viktor Vekselberg's Renova Corp and Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group, to form a company AAR (Alfa, Access, Renova).