Paul Spiegel, MD, MPH
Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Dr. Speigel is the Senior Health Officer for HIV/AIDS at UNHCR.
Before UNHCR, Dr. Spiegel worked for four years as a Medical Epidemiologist in the International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch at CDC. Previously he worked as a medical coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde in refugee camps in Kenya, DRC, and Rwanda.
Dr. Spiegel's research interests in complex humanitarian emergencies are in HIV/AIDS prevention and control, the development of programmatic and health indicators, the implementation and evaluation of health information systems and surveys, and health and human rights. He has published extensively in the field of complex humanitarian emergencies and is a reviewer for numerous academic journals including JAMA, BMJ and Disasters. He has won numerous awards including CDC's Charles C. Shepard award for outstanding research in Assessment and Epidemiology.