Peter Barebwanuwe

Peter was born and raised in the Eastern province of Rwanda. He has Masters in Public Health and Bachelors of Science in Public Health. He graduated a two-year HEAL fellowship under University of California, San Francisco (Cohort 2020-2022). He attended Community Based Education training at Suez Canal University, Egypt in 2019.  Peter has worked for Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) since December 2021. Prior joining CHAI, he worked for Partners In Health (PIH) more than a decade. Currently, he is Senior Associate-Hepatitis Program at CHAI-Rwanda. His primary responsibilities include program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation focusing on Hepatitis C elimination. As an educator, Peter led social medicine and palliative care rotations for medical students under the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Rwanda for more than five years. He also served as joint faculty for a community-based education program at the University of Global Health Equity, and for a Global Social Medicine course took place Uganda and Rwanda three times. Prior to becoming the Director of Social Medicine at PIH, Peter worked as a research department assistant, research teaching assistant and palliative care coordinator in non-communicable diseases at IMB.