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Director's New Year message
I’d like to start 2021 by sincerely thanking the UK-PHRST and our many partners and stakeholders for their incredible efforts throughout 2020. What a year it has been— confronting COVID-19 through deployments to the Philippines, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and The Gambia, working closely with our colleagues in WHO, Africa CDC, Nigeria CDC and others, delivering training and educational content online, such as our COVID-19 Massive Open Online Course with over 200,000 registrants, conducting research in domains too diverse to mention, and supporting the national COVID-19 response at home in the UK.
I know it has not been easy, navigating these uncharted waters in times of such uncertainty and personal challenge. Nevertheless, we continue to advance and enrich our integrated tripartite remit of outbreak response, research, and capacity development—a mandate whose importance cannot be overstated. More than ever, I feel privileged and proud to work with such skilled and dedicated colleagues.
I look forward to continued collaborations in 2021, hopefully in a somewhat more normalised world, one that we continue to work to bring about.
Thank you for all you do, and best wishes for 2021
Dan
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