Paul Pierre is a Haitian physician and global health leader with more than a decade of experience as a clinician, health care administrator, technical advisor and academic, managing complex health care operations in Haiti, Malawi, USA, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Dr. Pierre started his career as a clinician with the non-profit organization Partners In Health (PIH) in rural Haiti. He went on to study in France and the United States on two academic scholarships, from the European Aids Clinical Society (EACS) in 2006 and from the Fulbright Program in 2007, respectively. Dr. Pierre returned to PIH in Malawi as the Director of Community Programs. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Pierre led the delivery of health care and other social services at some of the largest internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in the devastated Haitian capital, Port-Au-Prince. Dr. Pierre later served in a number of leadership position at PIH, including Chief Operating Officer of the University Hospital at Mirebalais, Interim Executive Director for PIH-Malawi, Program Director of Leadership Development and Talent Management at PIH in Boston, Strategic Advisor for the PIH project in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer across all the projects.
Dr. Pierre earned his medical degree from the Universite d`Etat d`Haiti, received his Master of Public Health degree from the University of Arizona, and his Fellowship in Global Health from Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Pierre is currently a Fellow in Global Health with the Global Health Fellow Program-II and serves as Senior TB/HIV Medical Advisor at the Public Health Institute.