Dr. Peter F. Beales

Advisory Board Member Leader Health

 

As a LeaderHealth Advisory Board member, Peter will help shape and guide the focus of LeaderHealth activities to meet growing demands on health care and to improve patient/citizen experiences.

 

Peter was appointed to the Board on December 8th 2005, with 50 years experience in International Health, mainly with the World Health Organization but also with the European Union, The United States Government and with Academic Institutions. He brings to LeaderHealth a wealth of experience in developed and developing countries particularly in programme planning, evaluation, training and eLearning.

 

Peter is a fully qualified medical doctor and Fellow of the Faulty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom. He has held several key positions among them Director of Medical Services of American Samoa, Chief of Programming and Training in WHO’s Malaria Action Programme, Chief of Training in WHO’s Division of Control of Tropical Diseases and co-founder and coordinator of WHO’s Health Academy. He is part of the institutional memory of the World Health Organization having been invited to join for the first time as a full time staff member in 1956.

 

He has been consultant to the World Health Organization at its headquarters and Regional Offices for the past ten years, consultant to the European Commission and consultant to various national governments. He has been Honorary Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK; Visiting Professor of Tropical Hygiene, University of Mahidol, Thailand; Visiting Professor for eLearning, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University; and for the past 14 years is visiting lecturer to the University of Valencia, Spain for the International Masters programme in Tropical Parasitic Diseases.

 

Peter’s career has evolved through numerous scientific disciplines for which he is both academically qualified and has many years of experience. These include medical research technology, medical entomology, medicine and surgery, tropical medicine, public health, medical administration, programme planning, education and training, development of international training programmes, and eLearning as an integral part of eHealth.

 

It is this latter field that Peter will bring to LeaderHealth knowledge and experience required for health promotion and change management in a citizen centred health care system.

 

Peter speaks English, French and Thai, is married and has two children. His son Philip is the Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at University College, London. Peter and his wife live in Thailand, England and Switzerland.