Ibis Reproductive Health

Beth Fredrick Chair	Lisa Kallenbach Member at Large
Paull Hejinian Treasurer	Vanessa Northington Gamble Member at Large
Angela Hooton Clerk	John Santelli Member at Large
Ayo Ajayi Member at Large	Kelly Blanchard Member ex officio
Ann Furedi Member at Large

In remembrance of Dr. Allan Rosenfield

Beth Fredrick
Chair

Beth Fredrick is helping to lead the Advance Family Planning initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In nine countries, regionally and globally, Advance Family Planning works with government and civil society leaders to increase funding and foster a supportive policy environment for family planning. Beth worked previously with the International Women’s Health Coalition as their Executive Vice President and with the Guttmacher Institute, as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She was a Bellow Fellow with the Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies and was adjunct faculty in the Global Health Capstone program for New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service. In addition to the Board of Ibis Reproductive Health, she serves as Board Treasurer for EMpower, a not-for-profit organization that connects the resources of Emerging Markets (EM) professionals worldwide with local organizations in emerging market countries.

Paull Hejinian
Treasurer

Mr. Hejinian is a lawyer who manages the San Francisco office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, an international firm specializing in immigration and nationality law. He was married to Charlotte Ellertson, the founder of Ibis Reproductive Health, until her death in 2004.

Angela Hooton, JD
Clerk

Angela D. Hooton, JD, is the Vice President for National Programs at the National institute for Reproductive Health. In that role, she is responsible for overseeing the national education, policy, and training programs aimed at increasing access to reproductive health care services and information for all women. She has previously worked as the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She received her law degree from Yale University, where she was honored with the Carolyn E. Agger Endowment for Women in Law and was a Mary A. McCarthy Fellow.

Ayo Ajayi, MD, MPH
Member at Large

As Vice President for Field Programs at PATH, Dr. Ajayi leads strategy development and implementation for all PATH country programs, with offices located in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He oversees the operations of the Program Development Support team, and manages numerous professional staff at PATH’s international headquarters as well as in the field. He is a core member of the executive leadership team, which decides PATH’s organizational directions and strategies.

Before joining PATH in 2008, Dr. Ajayi worked for 16 years with the Population Council, serving as regional director for sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, he was Africa regional vice president for Pathfinder International, served as a government health officer in Nigeria, and taught at Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Ajayi has served on numerous occasions as technical advisor and program evaluator for the US Agency for International Development, the World Health Organization, and several other United Nations agencies and private foundations.

Dr. Ajayi is a founding board member of the Burkitt’s Lymphoma Kenya Fund, and serves on the boards of Ibis Reproductive Health and the Positive Action for Children Fund.

Dr. Ajayi earned his MD from the University of Ibadan Medical School in Nigeria. He received an MPH and a distinguished alumnus award from Boston University School of Public Health with a concentration in Health Systems, and he completed a postgraduate certificate program in Family Planning Impact Evaluation at the London University School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Ann Furedi
Member at Large

Ann Furedi is chief executive officer of bpas (British Pregnancy Advisory Service) a not-for-profit reproductive health charity that provides more than 25% of all the abortions in the UK (around 60,000 each year). bpas also has an extensive public education and policy remit. www.bpas.org. The charity is noted for its provision of second-trimester services and legal challenges to extend access to early medical abortion.

A former journalist and civil rights activist, Ann has worked in reproductive health policy, communications and advocacy since the early 1990s. Before joining bpas in 2003, she served as director of policy and communications at the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority, which regulates embryo research and infertility treatment in the UK. During the 1990s she ran the charity, Birth Control Trust, which led the campaigns for off-prescription post-coital contraception.

Ann currently chairs the Voice for Choice coalition of pro-choice organizations and is a Governor for a state-run college in one of Britain’s most socially deprived areas.

Lisa Kallenbach, MD, MPA
Member at Large

Dr. Lisa Kallenbach is a Hematogist/Oncologist practicing in Paoli, PA. Prior to her medical training, Dr. Kallenbach worked at the Population Council coordinating an MPH study abroad program in the US for Vietnamese doctors, and she also worked at Columbia University on a CDC‐funded grant comparing cervical disease in HIV+ and HIV‐ women. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea‐Bissau, West Africa, where she worked in maternal and child health and taught basic health and hygiene. Dr. Kallenbach earned her MD from Brown Medical School in 2003. She also received an MPA in health policy analysis from New York University in 1992. She completed a Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program at Tufts Medical Center in 2010.

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD
Member at Large

Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, is University Professor of Medical Humanities at the George Washington University. She is the first woman and African American to hold this prestigious, endowed faculty position. She is also Professor of Health Policy and American Studies. Throughout her career Dr. Gamble has worked to promote equity and justice in American medicine and public health. A physician, scholar, and activist, she is an internationally recognized expert on the history of American medicine, racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, cultural competence, and bioethics. She is the author of several widely acclaimed publications on the history of race and racism in American medicine and bioethics. Public service has also been a hallmark of Dr. Gamble’s career. She chaired the committee that took the lead role in the successful campaign to obtain an apology in 1997 from President Clinton for the infamous United States Public Health Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations including the Human Subjects Review Board of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, Ibis Reproductive Health, the Guttmacher Institute, and the Reproductive Health Technologies Project. Dr. Gamble is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

A proud native of West Philadelphia, Dr. Gamble received her BA from Hampshire College and her MD and PhD in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Santelli, MD, MPH
Member at Large

Dr. John Santelli is the Harriet and Robert H Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. John is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist. Between 1991 and 2004, he worked in a variety of Divisions at CDC on research related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health. This research has included studies on trends in adolescent pregnancy, HIV/STD risk behaviors, programs to prevent STD/HIV/unintended pregnancy, school based health care, and research ethics. He has been a national leader in insuring that adolescents are appropriately included in health research and have access to medically accurate, comprehensive sexuality education. Dr. Santelli received his MD from the Buffalo School of Medicine and his MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Adolescent Health, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, American Journal of Sexuality Education, and AIDS Education and Prevention.

Kelly Blanchard
Member ex officio

Ms. Blanchard holds a Master of Science in Population and International Health and a Bachelor of Arts degree in social studies from Harvard University. Prior to joining Ibis Reproductive Health, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana and worked as a Program Associate at the Population Council in New York and South Africa, where she managed a growing regional program on reproductive health. Kelly joined Ibis in 2003 as an Associate and opened our Johannesburg office. Her research has focused on emergency contraception, medication and surgical abortion, microbicides, and barrier methods for HIV prevention; she has authored or co-authored more than 40 articles on reproductive health in developing and developed countries. In 2006 Kelly received the Outstanding Young Professional Award from the Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association. She also received the Darroch Award recognizing excellence in research to advance sexual and reproductive health from the Guttmacher Institute in 2009. Our Board of Directors appointed Kelly President of Ibis in November 2004.