Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director
Paul Zeitz co‐founded the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) and has served as its Executive Director since January 2001. In that role, he has taken the lead on GAA's advocacy across a range of issues, including ending pediatric HIV/AIDS, advancing children's well‐being, integration of HIV and reproductive health services, universal basic education, global AIDS funding, and the links between HIV/AIDS and the broader Millennium Development Goals. In April 2010, GAA’s Board of Directors approved the creation of the Global Peace Action Network (GPAN), which will apply GAA’s advocacy approach to address other complex global challenges, including climate stabilization, food security, and preventing and mitigating the impact of mass atrocities and genocide.
Paul has established strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, PEPFAR, USAID, Education for All–Fast Track Initiative, UNAIDS, UNICEF, and World Health Organization, as well as with key decision‐makers in the U.S. Congress, United Nations, and other G8/G20 governments.
Paul is an accomplished media spokesperson, appearing frequently on television and radio news programs and publishing op‐eds in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and elsewhere. In addition, he helped create and currently chairs the board of directors of Global Action for Children. Paul's role as an effective advocate reflects his background as a public health specialist with nearly two decades of experience working in developing nations, including Bolivia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia. He has designed and implemented large‐scale programs in HIV/AIDS, child survival, reproductive health, health systems development, and support for orphans and vulnerable children.
Paul is a Professorial Lecturer of Global Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, and has previously worked for WHO, USAID, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He earned his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed an M.P.H. and a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University.
May 2007 DO Magazine article
December 1, 2006, op-ed in The Boston Globe
November 2006 Bethesda Magazine article
November 2003 Newsweek commentary by Paul Zeitz