Peter Small

Peter Small joined Stony Brook University in August 2015 as the Founding Director of the Global Health Institute, a transdisciplinary program aimed at reducing poverty, ecological degradation, and disease in Madagascar and other low-income countries through teaching, research, and service. Previously, he spent nearly 13 years at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he developed and led the foundation’s tuberculosis strategy, country programs, and core partnerships. In India, he established an innovative tuberculosis program to leverage technology and improved healthcare systems. A former faculty member at Stanford University’s Division of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine, Peter has over 150 publications, including influential work on tuberculosis epidemiology and genetic variability. His accolades include the Princess Chichibu Global TB Award, Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Florida, and fellowships in the American Academy of Microbiology and other esteemed societies.