Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Stanley Luchters

Biography

 Stanley is a trained medical doctor (University of Amsterdam) with extensive health experience in resource-constrained settings. He has a Masters in Public Health for Developing Countries (LSHTM, UK) and a PhD from Ghent University (Belgium) on opportunities for targeted HIV prevention among most-at-risk populations.

He holds honorary academic positions at the School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (Adjunct Associate Professor), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Visiting Professor) and Ghent University, Belgium (Visiting Professor).

In early 2012 Stanley joined Burnet in the roles of Principal for Sexual and Reproductive Health and also as a highly experienced Team Leader for the Women’s and Children’s Health working group in the Centre for International Health.

From 2004 until 2008, he was based in Mombasa, Kenya, employed by Ghent University, Belgium as the Kenya Country Director of the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH; a locally-registered NGO with close links to Ghent University and a WHO collaborating centre for reproductive health). In this capacity, he was responsible for the overall management of the research NGO, including around 100 full-time personnel. This also meant leading the fundraising, proposal development, scientific planning and implementation of sexual and reproductive health research, training and services.

Research Interest

 Principal of Sexual and Reproductive Health; Team Leader, Women’s and Children’s Health