Staff Profiles
Peter Lee, MPH - Director of the MassPartnership, has over 30 years experience in Public Health at the national, state and local levels. He is a graduate of the University of SC with a bachelor in biology/chemistry and a masters in Public Health Administration. Prior to this position he was Director of Healthy Communities Massachusetts and Program Development Specialist with the RWJ Community Health Leadership Program, Collaborative for Community Health. He was the first director and founder of the Healthy Communities Initiative at the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). He was the founding director of The Ecumenical AIDS Ministries of the SC Christian Action Council which formed AIDS Care Teams in almost 100 churches across the state. He received the Robert Wood Johnson, Community Health Leadership award, in 1995 for this work. He served on the Governing Council and on the Editorial Board of the national Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities and was co-guest editor with Len Duhl, the “father’ of the Healthy Cities movement international, of a special supplement of the Public Health Reports on Healthy Communities on 2000. He serves on the steering committee for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s long-range planning committee for greater Metro Boston, serves on the steering committee for the Massachusetts Cardiovascular Health plan development, is on the the Boards of WalkBoston and the Urban Edge and is active in his own neighborhood in Roxbury serving as co-chair of both the Ft. Hill Civic Association in Highland Park and the Roxbury Neighborhood Council's Project review committee of Highland Park in Roxbury. He is also on the Advisory Board to the American Hospital Association for Community Health Improvement.