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A global health physician and social entrepreneur, Peter Drobac is Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.
Peter was a co-founder and first executive director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Working at the intersection of health, education and technology, UGHE aspires to train the next generation of global health leaders and to become a worldwide innovation hub for health care delivery science.
For over a decade, Peter played a key role in the transformation of Rwanda’s health system, which has delivered unprecedented gains in population health and prosperity. As executive director of Partners In Health in Rwanda, Peter established community-based health system incubators that developed and scaled care delivery innovations from infectious diseases to cancer.
Peter’s academic interests include implementation science and the development of high-performing health systems. As an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, he taught global health, social medicine and clinical infectious disease. He holds a Master of Public Health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and a Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
