Associate Professor Peter Deutschmann
Executive Director, AIHI

Associate Professor Peter Deutschmann, originally a surgeon by training, has been involved in primary health care in international settings for over two decades. He and his family lived in India for fourteen years where he worked in a community hospital that integrated primary and secondary health care services for a population of 20,000 in an Himalayan district of the state of Uttar Pradesh. Peter was also involved in pioneering work for community-based responses to HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users and their partners in the North Eastern region of India.

After returning to Australia, Peter has worked to support national and community-based responses to HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health care. He has been involved in strengthening NGO responses to HIV/AIDS in India, Burma and China; provided advisory support to the Australian aid program in India, Nepal, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and facilitated national-level, HIV/AIDS strategic planning in Pakistan, Nepal and Papua New Guinea. Peter with extensive experience in international health, has been Team Leader or Project Director on 15 donor-funded projects and missions in Southeast, South and North Asia and the Pacific for agencies that include AusAID, USAID, DFID, UNICEF, WHO, UNAIDS and the World Bank.

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