Ibis Reproductive Health

Chris Elias Chair	Frances Kissling Treasurer
Firoze Katrak Clerk	Allan Rosenfield Emeritus Member
Rebecca Kramnick Member at Large	Paull Hejinian Member at Large
Beth Fredrick Member at Large	Vanessa Northington Gamble Member at Large
Kelly Blanchard Member ex officio

Christopher Elias, MD, MPH
Chair

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.

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. Currently she is a 2007-2008 Radcliffe Fellow and is working on a book entitled, How to Think about Abortion: Pro-choice Reflections on Rights and Responsibility. She is the co-author of Rosie: The Investigation of a Wrongful Death.

Firoze Katrak, ScD
Clerk

Dr. Katrak is a Vice President at Charles River Associates, an economics research and management consulting firm. He directs CRA’s business consulting group. Dr. Katrak received his doctorate from MIT in Materials Engineering/Finance and Business Economics.

Allan Rosenfield, MD
Emeritus Member

Dr. Rosenfield is Dean of the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. He also holds professorships in both public health and obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Rosenfield has previously served on the boards of directors of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Public Health Association, and the Association of Schools of Public Health. Dr. Rosenfield currently serves on the boards of directors of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, EngenderHealth, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, AmFAR, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and several others.

Rebecca Kramnick, JD
Member at Large

Ms. Kramnick is General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo), a nonprofit community development organization in New York City. WHEDCo fights poverty in the South Bronx, one of America’s poorest urban areas, by providing affordable housing to women and their families and uniquely integrated programs in the areas of childcare, education, job training, and small business development

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. Until her death in 2004, he was married to Charlotte Ellertson, the founder of Ibis Reproductive Health.

Beth Fredrick
Member at Large

Beth Fredrick is Executive Vice President of the International Women's Health Coalition, having worked for over two decades with the Guttmacher Institute. She serves on the Boards of EMpower, ScenariosUSA, the Thiele-Sardina Foundation and is an advisor to WISH-NY (Women's Initiative to Stop HIV).

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.