"Peter Aaby supports the Executive Team in scientific matters and assumed this role in 2002.

Peter Aaby is a Professor at Epidemiological Research Unit, Statens Serum Institute, Denmark and Head of the Bandim Health Project in Guinea Bissau. Since 1993, he has been a Senior Researcher and Project Manager of community studies of infectious diseases and primary healthcare in Guinea Bissau.

He started his career as a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (1976-78) and has since then held several positions including Lecturer, Institute of Ethnology, Uppsala, Sweden (1978-80), Senior Lecturer, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (1981-91) and Adjunct professor of International Health, University of Copenhagen (1998). In addition, he has served as Principal investigator on IRD's study of long-term efficacy and safety of high-titer measles vaccine in Niakhar, Senegal (affiliated IRD) (1990- ).

Peter Aaby has been a member of the ad-hoc Committee on AIDS under IUSSP (1991-93) and received the Novo Nordic Award in 2000. His is author or co-author of 170 scientific papers, letters and reviews, 31 proceedings/book chapters and 7 double publications in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (measles, measles immunization, diarrhoea, HIV-2).

He holds a M.Sc. in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen (1974) and a Dr.Med.Sci. from the University of Copenhagen (1988)."