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Bruno M. Benavides, MD, MSc
Program Officer
Perú
Dr. Bruno M. Benavides is a Peruvian Medical Doctor and an Integral Medicine and Health Management Specialist. His medical degree is from the San Marcos University-Lima. His career has been a continuum of learning from experiences at different levels, including grassroots level primary health care in Lima's shanty towns; research at the Nutrition Research Institute; policy-making as General Director of Health of the Peruvian Ministry of Health; Reproductive Health as Chief of Party of Project 2000 in Peru, as Research Specialist at the Peruvian Reproductive Health and Development Center and currently as Program Officer for the Latin America Region at Partners in Population and Development in Bangladesh.
Patricia Donovan
Director of Public Relations
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
USA
Pat Donovan has been with The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) since 1972. She began as editor of Family Planning/Population Reporter and became senior associate for law and public policy and a contributing editor to Family Planning Perspectives in 1981. She has been director of publications since 1999. Ms. Donovan is the author of numerous special reports, policy papers and journal articles on a wide range of reproductive health issues, including teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, abortion and welfare reform. Her reports include The Politics of Blame: Family Planning, Abortion and the Poor and Testing Positive: Sexually Transmitted Disease and the Public Health Response. In addition, she was the principle writer of AGI's special report Sex and America's Teenagers and has been a frequent contributor to the Institute's policy journal, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy. Ms. Donovan is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. Before joining AGI, she worked at Newsweek, the Voice of America and NBC News.
Elizabeth Ekochu, MBBS, MPH
Supervision/Quality Assurance Specialist
Uganda
Henry Gabelnick, PhD
Director
Contraceptive Research and Development (CONRAD) Program
USA
Dr. Gabelnick is the director of the CONRAD Program that was established under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at the Eastern Virginia Medical School where he is also a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. CONRAD has as its mission the improvement of reproductive health with emphasis on developing countries. Dr. Gabelnick received BS and MS degrees from MIT and his PhD from Princeton University. After some industrial experience, he joined the Biomedical Engineering Branch at the National Institutes of Health where he worked in the intramural laboratories for a number of years. He then joined the Contraceptive Development Branch at NIH where he stayed until moving to the CONRAD Program at its inception in 1986 and has been its Director since 1990. He has been an advisor to UNDP, WHO, and many of the Institutes of NIH and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He currently is the president of the Society for the Advance of Reproductive Care. He is also a member of the boards of the International Partnership for Microbicides, the Alliance for Microbicide Development and Biosyn, Inc.
Pape Gaye, MBA
Senior Vice President
IntraHealth International
USA
Pape Gaye, MBA is Senior Vice President of IntraHealth International (formerly Intrah) a newly formed non profit 501C3 corporation affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The organization is dedicated to "helping health care providers improve lives". Mr. Pape Gaye has been working in the field of international health for over 25 years, providing technical assistance to organizations and governments in developing countries in the design, planning, management and evaluation of health projects. His special expertise & interests are in the areas of Performance Improvement, Training, Reproductive Health/Family Planning/Maternal & Child Health, and STD/AIDS Education. As the Vice President for IntraHealth, Mr. Gaye provides organizational leadership and technical and strategic thinking and direction . He also oversees the organization's resource development effort. He has a strong commitment to Human Capacity Development (HCD) to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and looks forward to helping apply lessons learned from Family Planning and RH in this area and connected areas such as TB and Malaria.
Rita Giacaman, PharmD, MPhil
Institute of Community and Public Health
Palestine
Duff G. Gillespie, PhD
Duff Gillespie is a Senior Scholar at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also Visiting Professor in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences. Before moving to Johns Hopkins in February 2004, he was a Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Prior to the Packard Foundation, Duff Gillespie was Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Global Health Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has worked in the population and health field for 33 years and was the Director of USAID’s Office of Population for seven years. Dr. Gillespie received the Arthur Flemming Award in 1977 for pioneering operations research on community-based family planning and primary health care delivery systems. He was a recipient of Presidential Rank Awards in 1988, 1990, and 2001. In 2003, the Global Health Council presented Dr. Gillespie with a lifetime recognition award from the Global Health Council. He received the Administrator’s Distinguished Career award from USAID in 2004. Dr. Gillespie obtained his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Ronald H. Gray, BSc, MB
Robertson Professor of Reproductive Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA
Dr. Ronald Gray received his MBBS (1965) and DTM&H (1968) from the University of Sydney and his MSc (1971) in medical demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He served as lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the LSHTM, Director to the Population Bureau, and Medical Officer for the Special Program of Reproductive Health for the World Health Organization. Currently, Dr. Gray is a Robertson Professor in the Population and Family Health Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he has worked since 1980. His particular areas of expertise include reproductive health including HIV and STD control, maternal and child health, family planning, cervical cancer screening, and determinants of HIV/STD risk.
Robert A. Hatcher, MD, MPH
Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Emory University School of Medicine
USA
Dr. Hatcher, a board-certified pediatrician, has devoted his career to public health and family planning. He has been Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta since 1968 and was director of the family planning program at Grady Memorial Hospital from 1968-1996. Dr. Hatcher has written or co-authored dozens of articles on family planning and related subject and produced educational videos and media presentations. He has served as senior author of 17 editions of Contraceptive Technology, a Handbook for Clinic Staff and two African editions. His latest publication, A Pocket Guide to Managing Contraception, also for health professionals, was published in 1999. Dr. Hatcher is president of Bridging the Gap Foundation; a nonprofit organization committed to producing high-quality educational materials, and president of Bridging the Gap, Inc., which distributes Contraceptive Technology and other Foundation publications.
Monica Jasis, MD, MPH
Health Research Director
Centro Mujeres a.c.
Mexico
Monica Jasis, MD, MPH is a public health researcher with training in Mexico and the US (San Diego State University and The Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco). Since 1983 Dr. Jasis has acted as principal investigator for a range of research projects on women's health, the bi-national use of health services, the impact of maquiladora work on women's health and lives, reproductive rights, quality of health care, the health and rights of migrant women, informed consent and monitoring health indicators. She had worked as consultant for many international health research projects. Monica is cofounder and Health Research Director of Centro Mujeres, a women's NGO in La Paz, B.C.Sur, Mexico.
Karungari (Karusa) Kiragu, PhD
Behavior Change Specialist, Horizons Program
Population Council
Kenya
Dr. Kiragu received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1991. Presently she is based at Population Council in Nairobi, where she is conducting multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS operations research under the Horizons Program. Dr. Kiragu is implementing activities in several countries including Kenya, Zambia, and Uganda, and focusing on youth, health workers and educators. Some of her areas of research include application of behavior change models, caring for caregivers, and parent-child communication. Prior to joining Population Council, Dr. Kiragu was at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs where she authored an issue of Population Reports on youth and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Kiragu has published widely, and is a member of several national and international committees.
Pamela Lynam, MD
Regional Technical Director
JHPIEGO
Kenya
Dr. Pamela Lynam has twenty-nine years of clinical and public health experience, twenty-four of them in developing countries. She has worked extensively in Latin America (for 11 years), Africa (for 14 years) and also in South Asia, the Central Asian Republics, and South-East Asia. Her primary areas of expertise are the following:
She has written many professional papers, mostly on quality of care in reproductive health; handbooks on: the COPE technique, medical monitoring of reproductive health programs, and orientating clinics and hospitals to reproductive health matters (Inreach and Whole Site Training). She co-authored a Supervision Reference Manual for on-site supervisors of healthcare services.
Henry Mosley, MD, MPH
Professor, Population and Family Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
USA
Dr. Mosley is professor of Population and Family Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma and Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Currently the focus of his effort has been on developing the Strategic Leadership training programs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health. In the years 1998-2003 Henry Mosley with Ben Lozare of the Center for Communication Programs, have conducted six international Leadership Seminars in Baltimore, national Seminars in Philippines, China, Indonesia, Uganda, Peru and Nepal and a regional Seminar for five Central American Countries in Nicaragua. He continues to work on distance education with a current focus on developing CD-ROM based courses for delivery in sub-Saharan Africa under a project supported by the Mellon Foundation. His major areas of expertise are, population change, demographic and epidemiological change, health transition, disease control priorities, child survival, family planning, international health, and distance education.
Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG
Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning
University of California, Berkeley
USA
Dr. Potts is the Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning at University of California, Berkeley. His medical and PhD degrees are from Cambridge, England. Dr. Potts was the first Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, London where he introduced the concept of community based distribution (CBD) and disseminated manual vacuum aspiration (MVA), which he first described with Harvey Karman in 1972. In 1978 he was appointed President and CEO of Family Health International, North Carolina. He was a founder board member of Cambridge Advisory Center for Young People; Population Services International, Washington; Ipas, North Carolina; Marie Stopes International, London; and International Family Health, London. Dr. Potts has worked in every large country and many of the smaller nations of the world, he has written 10 books and over 200 papers, and his current research is in the cost-effectiveness of family planning and AIDS prevention and in the origins of conflict and violence.
Pauline Russell-Brown, MD
Senior Research Scientist
The Futures Group International
Jamaica
Pauline A. Russell-Brown, DrPH (Maternal and Child Health), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MSW (Social Policy) Rutgers University; BSc (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica). Currently, Senior Research Scientist with The Futures Group International, and Chief of Party of the USAID-supported Jamaica Adolescent Reproductive Health Project (Youth.now). She has experience in sexual and reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS, behavioral research, evaluation, teaching, and program and policy development. Special areas of interest - adolescent sexual and reproductive health behavior, HIV/AIDS prevention, men and reproductive health, and health program evaluation.
Harshad Sanghvi, MD
Medical Director, Maternal and Neonatal Health Program
JHPIEGO Corporation
USA
Harshad Sanghvi's professional background is in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Epidemiology. He completed his medical education and residency in Kenya and underwent graduate and postdoctoral training in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was formerly Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi. Currently he is the Medical Director of the Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, and also Medical Advisor to CECAP (Cervical Cancer Prevention Program) at JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is also a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of public health. He is the main contributor to Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth, a manual for doctors and midwives, one of the Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth (IMPAC) series of manuals published by WHO. He has over 200 publications in international journals on family planning, maternal health, and cervical cancer. Dr. Sanghvi is on the editorial panel for the American Journal of Infection prevention, WHO Forum, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of East and Central Africa and Population Reports. He has participated on several expert and technical committees at WHO, UNICEF USAID and the National Institutes of Medicine and National academy of Sciences. He has extensive work experience in more than 40 countries assisting low resource countries develop evidence based guidelines, developing training systems, seeking innovative solutions and improving performance of health services for women.
Pramilla Senanayake, MBBS, PhD
International Planned Parenthood Federation
United Kingdom
Shalini Shah, MBBS, DCH, MPH
Clinical Services Advisor, NGO Services Delivery Program (NSDP)
PRIME/INTRAH
Bangladesh
Dr. Shah, pediatrician and public health specialist, brings years of clinical and management experience to the present position of Clinical Services Advisor, NSDP, Bangladesh. For years, she practiced medicine in some of the leading hospitals in India, and gathered clinical experience that she has applied in her later career. Her clinical experience spans the range of essential service package services, including child health services and family planning, STDs, maternal health, communicable diseases (TB), limited curative care, and AIDS. She obtained her MPH at St. Louis University, with an internship at the Department of Health in St. Louis. Dr. Shah worked for CARE in India as a technical advisor in the areas of nutrition and health, where she integrated health intervention with a food distribution program. Dr. Shah began working with Intrah in 1998 as Regional Clinical Manager, and quickly became known and respected for her insightful observations and creative solutions to difficult problems.
J. Joseph Speidel, MD, MPH
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
USA
Susheela Singh, PhD
Alan Guttmacher Institute
USA
Bulbul Sood, MBBS, MNAMS, MPH
Program Management Specialist
CEDPA
India
Dr. Sood has an MBBS and a Master's degree in Public Health and Preventive and Social Medicine. She has over 25 years of experience in conducting research, strategic planning, program design, implementation, training and program evaluation. Prior to this, she was a professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at Lady Hardinge Medical College, one of the most prestigious medical colleges in Delhi. She has vast experience in reproductive health program coordination and management and has worked previously for EngenderHealth and The Profit Project. She currently oversees several innovative projects on sustainability, expanding method mix, operations research for SDM and safe motherhood. She has written several papers, chapters in books, training modules and participated in international and national conferences and meetings.
Martin Vaessen, MA
Vice President, Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Macro International
USA
Martin Vaessen, MA currently is the head of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program at ORC Macro and Senior Vice President in charge of the demographic and health research division. A graduate in sociology with specialization in demography, he has been actively involved in survey research on health and population in developing countries for the past thirty years. In doing so, he has gained extensive experience in survey research and its challenges in these countries. Prior to the DHS he worked with the World Fertility Survey (WFS) for nearly all of its existence. Areas of interest include family planning, HIV/AIDS, and child health.
Mary Beth Weinberger, MA
Chief, Population and Development Section
Population Division, United Nations
USA
Ms. Weinberger received an MA in Sociology, with a specialization in population, from the University of Michigan in 1974. She has been working in the United Nations Population Division since 1978, and since 1995 has been chief of the Population and Development Section. Areas of research include global trends in fertility and contraceptive use and, more recently, relationships between population trends and social and economic development, and population aging.
Basia Zaba, BSc, MSc
Senior Lecturer in Demography
London School of Hygiene
United Kingdom
Ms. Zaba started work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 1976, after completing the MSc course in Medical Demography and a BSc degree in Maths from Imperial College. She left the school in 1979, for a ten-year stint of work in Trinidad, where she was regional adviser in demographic analysis at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and a lecturer in statistics at the University of the West Indies. On her return to LSHTM she resumed research on mathematical models of population change, focusing mainly on work in Africa, looking at environmental consequences and determinants of population growth. Her current research centers on the demographic correlates of HIV: impacts on adult and child mortality and age structure; the relationship between HIV and fertility and how this affects HIV prevalence estimates; and sexual behavior and mobility as risk factors for HIV infection. More information on her is available at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/cps/staff/bzaba.html
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