ADVISORY GROUP

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The Maternal Health Task Force Advisory Group helps the Task Force identify critical areas of debate and knowledge gaps in the maternal health field, and stimulate new thinking in our thematic areas - research and evidence, programs and evaluation, and policy and advocacy. 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 Task Force.

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

Deborah J. Gordis, MPH
Director, Mothers Matter Program
CARE USA
Washington DC, USA

Wendy J. Graham
Professor of Obstetric Epidemiology
Immpact, School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, UK

Geeta Rao Gupta
President
International Center for Research on Women
Washington, DC, USA

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

Prof. 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
The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, 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, M.D., M.Sc., M.P.H., 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