North America Global Health Affairs
Peter J. Pitts Senior Vice President, Director, Global Health Affairs MS&L Global Healthcare, New York
Peter Pitts is senior vice president, director of global health affairs for MS&L. From 2002-2004 Peter was the associate commissioner for external relations at the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), where he supervised the FDA's Office of Public Affairs, Office of the Ombudsman, Office of Special Health Issues, Office of Executive Secretariat and the Advisory Committee Oversight and Management. In addition, he served on the agency’s obesity working group and counterfeit drug taskforce.
Before his work with the FDA, Pitts was managing partner of Wired World, a strategic public awareness company. In addition, he has served as marketing manager at the Cable Health Network, later to become Lifetime Network; associate creative director at Reader’s Digest; creative services director at McCall’s magazine; director of marketing at The New York Post; director of marketing for The Washington Times and Insight Magazine; and, vice president of marketing and communications for Hudson Institute.
His comments and commentaries on health care policy issues regularly appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Health Affairs, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun Times, The San Francisco Examiner, Investor’s Business Daily, The Baltimore Sun, and PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” among others.
He is the editor of the new book, “Coincidence or Crisis,” a discussion of global prescription medicine counterfeiting.
He has served as an adjunct professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Butler University. In 1998 he was voted one of Indianapolis’ “40 Under 40” by the Indianapolis Business Journal. Peter earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and French literature, as well as his master’s and doctorate in public health policy, from McGill University.