Peter Cherutich, MBChB, PhD, MPH
Biography
Dr Peter Cherutich, MBChB, MPH, PhD is a Senior Deputy Director of Medical Services at the Kenya Ministry of Health. He is the former Head of the Department of Preventive and Promotive Health. Prior to that, he was Head of HIV Prevention at Kenya’s National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme (NASCOP) where he spearheaded many prevention programmes. His most notable contribution to HIV prevention was the scaling up of Kenya’s male circumcision HIV prevention services to become the largest programme in Africa. He has chaired many technical working groups on HIV prevention and, notably, was the team lead for the development of Kenya’s HIV prevention revolution roadmap. He obtained his PhD in Implementation Science in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. His PhD dissertation, published in Lancet HIV, provided the evidence for the adoption of HIV partner notification services by the World Health Organization. His current research interests include exploring the feasibility of partner notification in key populations and developing effective prevention and care interventions for hepatitis C infection among people who inject drugs.
Position
Ministry of Health, Kenya