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PhD, Health Economics, University of Cape Town
MPH, Global Health, Yale University
BA, Psychology & French, Lehigh University

HIV, Cost effectiveness, Health disparities, Health of marginalized populations in low- & middle- income countries, Health and human rights

Peter Navario is the Executive Director of HealthRight International, a global health NGO dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of marginalized populations around the world. Peter is also the Director of Global Health Strategy and Clincal Assistant Professor at NYU School of Global Public Health. Peter was previously a Technical Advisor at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in New York, where he held various portfolios including the UN post-2015 development agenda/Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, and the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health. Prior to UNAIDS, Peter was a Fellow in Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he published, lectured and convened meetings with leaders on U.S. development assistance for HIV/AIDS and global health. Undergirding his more recent work on policy and thought leadership is ten years in the field implementing and evaluating HIV prevention, care and treatment programs across sub-Saharan Africa. Peter is on the editorial board of the journal Global Health Governance, and has written on AIDS policy and other global health issues in various publications including the Lancet, Nutrition, the Huffington Post, cfr.org, and Global Health Magazine.

Recent

H1N1’s Teachable Moment

Huffington Post

Peter Navario and Scott Rosenstein on the importance of making vaccines available in developing countries to support global public health.

HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Improved Prognosis

Council on Foreign Relations

Peter Navario writes about HIV/AIDS in South Africa and the forthcoming challenges.