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Peter J. Donaldson, Ph.D.
President

Mar Aguilar, M.A.
Director
International Support

Wendy Baldwin, Ph.D.
Vice President
Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program

John Bongaarts, Ph.D.
Vice President and Distinguished Scholar

Safaa El-Kogali
Regional Director
Middle East and North Africa

Scott Newman, M.B.A.
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Saroj Pachauri, M.D., Ph.D.
Regional Director
South and East Asia

Naomi Rutenberg, Ph.D.
Vice President
HIV and AIDS Program

James E. Sailer, M.P.P.
Vice President
Corporate Affairs Division

John W. Townsend, Ph.D.
Vice President
Reproductive Health Program

Patricia C. Vaughan, J.D.
General Counsel and Secretary

 

 

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Mark A. Walker
Chairman
Managing Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
New York, New York

Darcy Bradbury
Managing Director
The D. E. Shaw Group
New York, New York

Marc A. Bygdeman
Professor Emeritus, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden

Peter J. Donaldson
President
Population Council
New York, New York

Wafaa El-Sadr
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, New York

Lynn A. Foster
New York, New York

Anna Glasier
Director
Family Planning and Well Woman Services
NHS Lothian
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Werner Holzer
Bad Homburg, Germany

Charles D. Klein
Managing Director
American Securities Capital Partners, LLC
New York, New York

Anna Mastroianni
Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law
Seattle, Washington

Cheikh Mbacké
Independent Consultant
Dakar, Senegal

Robert B. Millard
Partner
Realm Partnership LLC
New York, New York

Jotham Musinguzi
Regional Director
Partners in Population and Development
Africa Regional Office
Kampala, Uganda

Anne R. Pebley
Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Justin A. Rockefeller
Principal
Richmond Management
New York, New York

 

What's New

Schooling and Conflict in Darfur: A Snapshot of Basic Education Services for Displaced Children. The Population Council, in collaboration with the Women’s Refugee Commission, conducted a survey of basic educational services and facilities in North and West Darfur in 2008. Read about their findings in this report, forthcoming in March. To order a copy, contact publications@popcouncil.org

BMJ has announced the nominees for its prestigious annual award for "Getting Research into Practice." The Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Practice (SHHEP) group—to which ABBA, a Population Council–led consortium, belongs—was nominated for successfully "advocating research findings to change the law in Ghana so that survivors of gender based and sexual violence are no longer forced to pay for their own medical tests to prove assault in court." Read more about this on page 6 of the linked PDF. (offsite link)

New statistics project more than five million fewer deaths from AIDS in 2030 than previously estimated. The Population Council's John Bongaarts and co-authors François Pelletier and Patrick Gerland address the cause and implications of the revised estimate in a recent article in The Lancet, "How many more AIDS deaths?" (more)

The Population Council applauds the US government’s renewed support and dedication to meeting the health and development goals laid out in the ICPD and other related UN agreements. (more)

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