The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation in Park Ridge, Ill., has done research on religion’s influence on policy-making.

EngenderHealth of New York is a nonprofit organization working to “support and strengthen reproductive health services for women and men worldwide” that has collaborated with religious organizations.

FHI 360, formerly titled Family Health International, is a nonprofit organization that works to improve health in more than 60 developing countries. It conducts behavioral, biomedical and health services research in support of numerous global health priorities, including contraception, reproductive health, HIV, malaria, rotavirus, and other infectious diseases, such as avian influenza. FHI also implements programs […]

The Center for Health and Gender Equity in Takoma Park, Md., monitors “the effects of U.S. international policies on the health and rights of women, girls, and other vulnerable populations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”

Michael Reich is Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy at Harvard University’s School of Public Health.

Joan Kaufman is former director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also a senior scientist at Brandeis University’s Schneider Institute for Health Policy at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management. She directs the International […]

Susheela Singh is vice president for research at the Guttmacher Institute and co-author of Section 2 of the Lancet report, “Sexual behaviour in context: a global perspective.”

Dr. David A. Grimes is clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and a fellow of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina. He co-authored Section 4 of the Lancet report, “Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic.”

Nancy Padian is an adjunct professor of epidemiology in the school of public health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a founding faculty member of the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the university, a senior technical advisor of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and a consultant for the […]