Dr. Christian Pitter serves as Director, Global Health, Population, and Nutrition (GHPN), responsible for the organization’s global health portfolio, including Infectious Diseases and Health Systems, Global Health and Population Research, Science Facilitation, Product Development and Introduction, and Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition. Dr. Pitter assumed the directorship of GHPN after 2 years as Director of FHI 360’s Infectious Diseases and Health Systems Department within GHPN, overseeing a portfolio of global divisions including HIV, Tuberculosis, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Health Systems Strengthening, and Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Pitter came to FHI 360 from University Research Co. LLC (URC), where he was Senior Technical Advisor at URC’s home office, providing technical leadership and supporting business development across URC’s international portfolio, and had previously served as Chief of Party and Country Director in Cambodia. Prior to that, Dr. Pitter spent 8 years at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), serving as Senior Director of Global Technical Policy and Partnerships, which entailed leading development of program standards and technical and programmatic partnerships. He also served as the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Uganda’s Principal Advisor for Antiretroviral Treatment Programs, which included leading the CDC’s support for establishing and expanding national HIV care treatment programs under PEPFAR. Dr Pitter was also Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, holding a joint appointment in the Institute for Global Health and the Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Pitter earned an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, an MD from Emory University School of Medicine, and a BSc in Biology from Yale University. He completed his internship and residency in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and returned to UCSF as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.