Peter Lurie

About Peter Lurie

Peter Lurie, M.D, M.P.H. is President and Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Previously, Lurie was the Associate Commissioner for Public Health Strategy and Analysis at the Food and Drug Administration, where he worked on antimicrobial resistance, transparency, caffeinated beverages, arsenic in rice, fish consumption by pregnant and nursing women, expanded access to investigational drugs, and prescription drug abuse. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, where he addressed drug and device issues, coauthored the organization’s Worst Pills, Best Pills consumer guide to medications, and led efforts to reduce worker exposure to hexavalent chromium and beryllium. Earlier, as a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Michigan, he studied needle exchange programs, ethical aspects of mother-to-infant HIV transmission studies, and other HIV policy issues domestically and abroad.

Experience

1. President and Executive Director

   Center for Science in the Public Interest

   Sep 2017 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• Cornell University

  Bachelor's degree, Chemistry

  1978 — 1982

• University of California, San Francisco

  Family Practice Residency Program

  1987 — 1990

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  Doctor of Medicine - MD

  1982 — 1987

• University of California, Berkeley

  Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program

  1990 — 1992

• University of California, San Francisco

  Pew Health Policy Research Fellow

  1990 — 1993