Herbert B. Peterson
Professor and Chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health and Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. Wittenberg University
M.D. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Herbert B. Peterson, M.D. is Professor and Chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNC. He is also Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research Evidence for Sexual and Reproductive Health based at UNC. Dr. Peterson received his M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; he subsequently completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at UNC and training in epidemiology as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is certified by both the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Peterson served for 20 years at the CDC, where he was Chief of the Epidemiologic Studies Branch and the first Chief of the Women’s Health and Fertility Branch of the Division of Reproductive Health. He was assigned by CDC to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland where he served until coming to UNC.
Dr. Peterson’s major research interests are at the interface of clinical medicine and public health and have focused on reproductive health. He has authored scientific reports that have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, and the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Epidemiology.
