Peter R. Lamptey, MD, Dr.PH, is based in Accra, Ghana and is the President of Public Health and Development Programs at Family Health International (FHI) with headquarters in NC. Dr. Lamptey is an internationally recognized public health physician and expert in developing countries, with particular emphasis on communicable and non-communicable diseases. With a career at FHI spanning more than 25 years, Dr. Lamptey has been instrumental in establishing FHI as one of the world’s leading international NGOs in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support programs. His experience in HIV/AIDS efforts internationally includes collaboration with the World Bank to design and monitor the China Health IX HIV/AIDS Project.
From 1997-2007, Dr. Lamptey directed the ten-year Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project. The IMPACT project encompassed HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He is the former chair of the Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network, a global network of more than 150 HIV/AIDS experts in 50 countries that was formed in 1996 by AIDSCAP, the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights of the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Dr. Lamptey delivered the HIV prevention plenary speeches at the world AIDS conferences held in Berlin, Germany, in 1993 and in Durban, South Africa, in 2000.
From 1991-1997, Dr. Lamptey directed the AIDS Control and Prevention (AIDSCAP) Project, funded by USAID and implemented by FHI. The largest international HIV/AIDS prevention program undertaken to date, AIDSCAP consisted of more than 800 projects in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to AIDSCAP, he directed AIDSTECH, also funded by USAID as a global HIV/AIDS project and implemented by FHI from 1987 to 1992.
Born in Ghana, Dr. Lamptey began his career as a district medical officer there, first in the Salaga district, where he was responsible for preventive and clinical health services to 200,000 individuals, and then for USAID-funded Danfa Comprehensive Rural Health Family Planning Project. He received his medical degree from the University of Ghana, a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a doctorate in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Commissioner Peter Lamptey, President of Public Health Programs at Family Health International, offers his reflections on US support for Kenya's response to HIV. To help mitigate Kenya's impending "HIV treatment mortgage," Lamptey suggests increased integration of services, a massive scale-up of prevention activities, and implementation of a new partnership framework to guide future assistance.
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