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Advisory Group


The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) Advisory Group helps the MHTF identify critical areas of debate and knowledge gaps in the maternal health field, and stimulate new thinking in our thematic areas- evidence, programs, and policy. The Advisory Group consists of approximately 60 active maternal health researchers, academicians, service providers, policy-makers, donors, advocates and activists as well as experts from the closely allied fields of newborn health, child health, reproductive health and family planning. We call upon the expertise of this group to review project proposals, participate in consultations, represent the MHTF at meetings around the world, and generally shape the work of the MHTF.

 

Kaosar Afsana MD, MPH, PhD

Programme Head

Health Programme, BRAC

Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Koki Agarwal, MD, DrPH

Director

MCHIP/Jhpiego

Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Linda A. Bartlett MD, MHSc

Department of International Health

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Yves Bergevin

Coordinator, A Thematic Fund for Maternal Health

Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch, Technical Division

United Nations Population Fund

New York, NY, USA

 

Alvaro Bermejo

Executive Director

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Brighton, UK

 

Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD

W. H. Watkins Professor and Dean

School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA, USA

 

Julia Bunting

Team Leader, AIDS and Reproductive Health, Human Development Group

UK Department for International Development

London, UK

 

Oona Campbell

Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London, UK

 

Rebecca J. Cook, JD, JSD

Professor of Law & Faculty Chair in International Human Rights

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

 

France Donnay, MD

Senior Program Officer

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Seattle, WA, USA

 

Andres de Francisco, MD, PhD

Team Coordinator & Special Adviser Strategy

Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health

Geneva, Switzerland

 

Lynn P. Freedman, JD, MPH

Professor of Clinical Public Health

Population and Family Health Dept.

Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

New York, NY, USA

 

Aparajita Gogoi, PhD

Country Director, CEDPA India

National Coordinator, WRA India

New Delhi, India

 

Wendy J. Graham

Professor of Obstetric Epidemiology

Immpact, School of Medicine and Dentistry

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen, UK

 

GJ Hofmeyr

Eastern Cape Department of Health

Universities of the Witwatersrand and Fort Hare

Alice, South Africa

 

Julia Hussein, MRCOG, MSc

Scientific Director, Ipact & Senior Clinical Research Fellow

Immpact

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen, UK

 

Lily Kak, PhD

Maternal and Newborn Health Advisor

USAID

Washington, DC, USA

 

Marge Koblinsky, PhD

Sr. Technical Advisor for Women's Health

John Snow Inc.

Boston, MA, USA

 

André B. Lalonde, MD, FRCSC, MSc

Executive Vice-President

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

Ottawa, Canada

 

Gwyneth Lewis, OBE

International Clinical Lead for Maternal Health and Maternity Services

Department of Health

London, UK

 

Bridget Lynch

President

International Confederation of Midwives

Toronto, Canada

 

Florence M. Mirembe, MBCHB, M.Med, PhD

Makerere University

Kampala, Uganda

 

Jotham Musinguzi, MD

Partners in Population and Development

Kampala, Uganda

 

Oladosu A. Ojengbede MD, FMCOG, FWACS

Professor and Director

Centre for Population & Reproductive Health

University College Hospital, University of Ibadan

Ibadan, Nigeria

 

Vinod Paul MD, PhD, FAMS

Head, Department of Pediatrics

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi, India

 

Herbert B. Peterson, MD, FACOG

Professor and Chair

Department of Maternal and Child Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC, USA

 

Mariana Romero

Associate Researcher

CEDES and CONICET

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Carine Ronsmans

Professor in Epidemiology

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London, UK

 

Theresa Shaver

President, Executive Director

White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood

Washington, DC, USA

 

Jill Sheffield

Executive Director

Women Deliver

New York, NY, USA

 

Jeremy Shiffman

Associate Professor of Public Administration

American University

Washington, D.C., USA

 

Cynthia Stanton, PhD

Dept of Population, Family and Reproductive Health

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Ann Starrs

President

Family Care International

New York, NY, USA

 

Solomon Tadesse

Amhara Development Association

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

Catharine Taylor

Global Program Leader

Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition

PATH

Washington, DC, USA

 

Nahid Toubia

International Development Consultant

Khartoum, Sudan

 

John W. Townsend, Ph.D.

Director, Reproductive Health

The Population Council

Washington, DC, USA

 

Amy Tsui

Director, Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Stewart Tyson, MSc

CEO

Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health

Liverpool, UK

 

Jacques van Zuydam

Chief Director

National Population Unit

Pretoria, South Africa

 

José Villar, MD., MSc, MPH, FRCOG

Senior Fellow in Perinatal Medicine

University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Oxford, UK

 

Beverly Winikoff, MD, MPH

President

Gynuity Health Projects

New York, NY, US