Come to the Global Health Seminar Series Talk. This Monday, Peter Lamptey, President of Public Health and Development Programs at Family Health International, will lecture on Expanding the Boundaries of HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programs.

Peter Lamptey received his MD from the University of Ghana, MPH from University of California, Los Angeles and DPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Lamptey began his public health career as a district medical officer in Ghana in which capacity he provided preventive and clinical health services for 200,000 people. He was also involved in the USAID-funded Danfa Comprehensive Rural Health Family Planning Project. He then went on to direct two more USAID-funded projects implemented by Family Health International (FHI): AIDSTECH and AIDSCAP. AIDS Prevention and Control Project (AIDSCAP) is the worlds largest AIDS prevention program comprising 800 projects in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Lamptey then directed the ten-year Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project with programs in Africa, Asian, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He was instrumental in collaborating with the World Bank on the China Health IX HIV/AIDS Project. He formerly chaired Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).