Ibis Reproductive Health

Beth Fredrick Chair	Frances Kissling Treasurer
Carmen Barroso Member at Large	Chris Elias Member at Large
Paull Hejinian Member at Large	Angela Hooton Member at Large
Vanessa Northington Gamble Member at Large	Kelly Blanchard Member ex officio

In remembrance of Dr. Allan Rosenfield

Beth Fredrick
Chair

Beth Fredrick currently works with Advance Family Planning at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, having previously worked as Executive Vice President of the International Women's Health Coalition and for over two decades with the Guttmacher Institute. She serves on the Boards of Empower and the Thiele-Sardina Foundation and is an advisor to WISH-NY (Women's Initiative to Stop HIV).

Frances Kissling
Treasurer

Frances Kissling was the president of Catholics for a Free Choice for 25 years until her retirement in 2007. She was also the founding president of the National Abortion Federation and a founder of the Global Fund for Women. From 2007 to 2008, she was a Radcliffe Fellow and worked on a book entitled, How to Think about Abortion: Pro-choice Reflections on Rights and Responsibility. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-author of Rosie: The Investigation of a Wrongful Death.

Carmen Barroso, PhD
Member at Large

A widely acknowledged leader in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, Dr. Carmen Barroso has led the International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region since 2003. Under Dr. Barroso’s direction, the organization now combines quality health services with powerful advocacy in defense of sexual and reproductive rights. Previously, she served for twelve years as Director of the Population & Reproductive Health Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, funding hundreds of NGOs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and helping to bring the voices of women in the developing world to international policy fora. Dr. Barroso holds a PhD in Social Psychology from Columbia University and has been a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University.

Christopher Elias, MD, MPH
Member at Large

Dr. Elias is President of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). He currently serves as Co-Chair on the Policy Advisory Committee for International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in New York, and is a member on the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in Geneva, the Reproductive Health Technology Project in Washington, D.C., the Nike Foundation Advisory Group in Portland, and is on the Steering Committee for the Global Campaign for Microbicides in Washington, D.C.

Paull Hejinian
Member at Large

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
Member at Large

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.

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble
Member at Large

Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD is Director of the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. The Center, the only bioethics center at an Historically Black College University, focuses on bioethics, minority health, and public health. The Center was established in 1999 as a result of President Clinton’s apology for the United States Public Health Syphilis Study. Dr. Gamble chaired the committee that took the lead role in the campaign to obtain the apology. At Tuskegee, Dr. Gamble is also Professor of Bioethics in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health at Tuskegee University. A physician and medical historian, She is an internationally recognized expert on the history of race and racism in American medicine, racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, cultural competence, diversity, and bioethics. Dr. Gamble is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

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 most recent research has focused on emergency contraception, medication and surgical abortion, microbicides, and barrier methods for HIV prevention; she has authored or co-authored over 20 articles on reproductive health issues in developing countries. Our Board of Directors appointed Kelly President of Ibis in November 2004.