Peter Geoffrey Bourne was born on 6 August 1939 and is a physician, anthropologist, author and international civil servant with experience in several senior government positions.
35 Facts About Peter Bourne
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Peter Bourne is currently a visiting senior research fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford, vice-chancellor emeritus at St George's University in Grenada and chair of the Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba.
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Peter Bourne is a distinguished fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
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Peter Bourne received his early education at the Dragon School before attending Whitgift School, Croydon.
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Peter Bourne established a groundbreaking program through which arrested alcoholics could take the drug antabuse as an alternative to serving prison time.
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Peter Bourne was active in the civil rights movement and participated in the effort to integrate lunch counters in the city.
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In 1964, Peter Bourne was commissioned as a captain in the United States Army Medical Corps.
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Peter Bourne was assigned to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where he studied the psychological and physiological effects of stress on basic trainees as a research psychiatrist.
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Peter Bourne spent one year in Vietnam as chief of the neuropsychiatry section of the Army's Psychiatric Research Team, where he studied stress in helicopter ambulance medics and Special Forces.
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Peter Bourne worked as a volunteer at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic during this period.
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In 1969, Peter Bourne returned to Emory University as an assistant professor of psychiatry, preventive medicine and community health.
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Peter Bourne ran the mental health department of a federally-funded Community Health Center which he eventually expanded into the first free-standing community mental health center in Georgia.
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Peter Bourne continued to play an active role in the integration efforts in Georgia and the South.
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Together with his first wife, Judith Rooks, Peter Bourne led an effort to overturn Georgia's restrictive abortion laws.
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Peter Bourne was active with the American Psychiatric Association, chairing the organization's Task Force on Drugs and Drug Abuse Education and serving on the Task Force on the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders.
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Peter Bourne has served on the editorial board of the journal Psychiatry since 1969.
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Peter Bourne had run, as part of his mental health center, a treatment program for heroin addicts.
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In 1971, Peter Bourne established Georgia's first statewide drug treatment program under Governor Jimmy Carter; from 1970 to 1973, he served as Carter's special advisor for health affairs.
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Peter Bourne remained personally close to Carter and was influential in convincing him to run for the American presidency.
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Peter Bourne did so with the intention of resigning as soon as Carter announced his plans to run for the presidency.
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Under Jimmy Carter, Peter Bourne was appointed special assistant to the president for health issues and director of the Office of Drug Abuse Policy, the predecessor of the current Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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Peter Bourne resigned this position on 20 July 1978, amid controversy concerning his efforts to maintain the confidentiality of one of his staff for whom he had written a prescription for methaqualone.
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Peter Bourne served as the personal envoy of the president of the United States in bilateral discussions with heads of state or government in Burma, Colombia, Thailand, the Philippines and Jamaica.
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Peter Bourne chaired the World Hunger Working Group, a sub-cabinet committee formed to formulate new US policy with regard to world hunger.
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Peter Bourne chaired the Interagency Committee on World Health formed to review the US role in global health and to formulate new presidential initiatives in this area.
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Peter Bourne was the White House coordinator for the Presidential Commission on the UN International Year of the Child, and with Rosalynn Carter established a Commission on Mental Health and Mental Illness.
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Peter Bourne served on the President's Commission on White House Fellows.
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Peter Bourne served as the White House coordinator for International Human Needs and the liaison with the UN specialized.
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In 1979, Peter Bourne became an Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations, where he established and ran the "International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade," a 10-year program that would provide clean drinking water to more than 500 million people worldwide.
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Peter Bourne served on the Jury of the prestigious medical prize, The Lasker Awards.
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Peter Bourne became president of Tropica Development Ltd, a company involved in fostering economic programs in Africa.
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Richardson and Peter Bourne subsequently collaborated on a number of such efforts in Iran, Peru, Cuba, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Kenya, and North Korea, where they helped win the release of an American lay preacher who had crossed to the wrong side of the border.
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Peter Bourne launched on campus, in collaboration with the West Indies Cricket Board, The Shell Cricket as the main training institution for the West Indies cricket team.
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In 2003 Peter Bourne left Grenada and returned to Washington, DC He was appointed as a visiting senior research fellow at Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford and began dividing his time between the US and the UK.
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Peter Bourne is a member of the Reform Club, the Special Forces Club, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.