Martin Luzi Büechi is head of the Section for Policy and Research and the deputy vice director of the Main Unit, Substance Abuse and AIDS, of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (SFOPH). He has a M.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After several years with the United Nations and other international organizations, in 1987 he was appointed science attaché at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, DC. From 1993 to 1995, he served as deputy head of the Section AIDS of the SFOPH. He has held his present position since the summer of 1996.
| By: Patrick Basham, Martin Buechi, Ueli Minder, Patricia Erickson, Eugene Oscapella, Gil Puder, Robin Room, Daniel Savas, Jeffrey Singer and Richard Stevenson