Peter Navario

Peter Navario

Peter Navario

Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, NYU

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Dr. Peter Navario is Executive Director of HealthRight International, a global health NGO dedicated to improving the health of marginalized communities around the world, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health Policy at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. At NYU, Peter teaches courses on Global Health, Health Economics, Health & Human Rights, Global Health Diplomacy, and Public Health Policy and Management. 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), and the 2011 UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. 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 other global health initiatives. 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.

Peter holds a BA from Lehigh University, an MPH in Global Health from Yale University, and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Cape Town.