Peter Lurie
President and Executive Director @Center for Science in the Public Interest
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WORK HISTORY
President and Executive Director @Center for Science in the Public Interest
Washington, DC, US
EDUCATION
Cornell University
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
Family Practice Residency Program
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine - MD
University of California, Berkeley
Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
University of California, San Francisco
Pew Health Policy Research Fellow
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.
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