Bruce Aylward

Bruce Aylward
Bruce Aylward
	Aylward in 2021
Born	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Alma mater	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Memorial University of Newfoundland; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health;
	Scientific career
Fields	Epidemiology
Institutions	World Health Organization

Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist. Since September 2017 he has been Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization. He is part of the implementation of the WHO's COVAX Facility. He has past experience in the areas of polio eradication, Zika virus, and Ebola.^[1]

Aylward was the subject of a 2020 interview controversy, in which he abruptly ended a television interview after being asked a question about Taiwan.

^ Kupferschmidt, Kai (2020). "China's aggressive measures have slowed the coronavirus. They may not work in other countries". Science. doi:10.1126/science.abb5426. S2CID 216508232.