Dr Paul De Lay joined UNAIDS in February 2003 and was appointed the Deputy Executive Director, Programme, in June 2009.
In his current function Dr De Lay leads UNAIDS work to promote a comprehensive and integrated, evidence informed and adequately resourced response to the HIV epidemic. This includes providing strategic information and policy guidance driven by country needs, monitoring programmatic coverage and behavioural trends, building country capacity, and evaluating the effectiveness of the response at the country, regional and global levels.
Since 1988, Dr De Lay has been engaged in strategic planning, and implementing and monitoring national and international AIDS programmes. He is a medical doctor with training and experience in family practice, infectious and tropical diseases, epidemiology, preventive medicine and public health. Further to practicing clinical medicine for 15 years, he worked with the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization and served as Chief of the HIV/AIDS Division at USAID. He has a medical degree from the University of California, Board Certification in Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and holds a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is married to Karen Stanecki, who works as a bio-statistician at UNAIDS.