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Tracy Baird, MPH
President
Ms. Baird has worked for Ipas since 1995 on programs ranging from
training midwives in postabortion care in Ghana to introducing new
abortion technologies in Vietnam to expanding use of manual vacuum
aspiration in Eastern and Central Europe. As Senior Program Advisor,
she currently leads Ipas’s global initiative on medication abortion,
managing a global grant designed to increase access to medication
abortion and leading a team of staff to coordinate and maximize Ipas’s
work in this field. Previously, as Ipas’s US/Europe and Asia Regional
Director, she was responsible for developing and guiding strategies for
Ipas’s efforts and for achieving sustainable results in those regions.
Since joining Ipas she has authored numerous articles, monographs, and
technical guides on various aspects of abortion care. Prior to joining
Ipas, Ms. Baird worked as a manager of an abortion/family planning
clinic in North Carolina and on programs to prevent sexual assault in
California and North Carolina. She earned a Master of Public Health
degree in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 1995, where her Master's Thesis
was on abortion providers' perceptions of quality of abortion care.
To learn more about Ipas, visit www.ipas.org
Stanley K. Henshaw
Treasurer
Dr. Henshaw is a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. He has
authored or co-authored over 60 articles and publications on abortion
utilization in the U.S. and internationally, abortion policies and
services, teenage pregnancy, unintended pregnancy, and family planning.
With colleagues at the Guttmacher Institute, he conducted two
cross-national studies of family planning services and teenage
reproductive behavior. Dr. Henshaw has served as expert witness in
numerous legal proceedings involving abortion restrictions. For six
years he served as member of the board of directors of the National
Abortion Federation and received the Christopher Tietze Humanitarian
Award from that organization. Dr. Henshaw holds a Ph.D. in sociology
from Columbia University.
To learn more about the Guttmacher Institute, visit www.guttmacher.org
Sacheen Carr-Ellis, MD
Clerk
Dr. Carr-Ellis received her medical degree from Albany Medical College
in New York State. She completed residency training at New York Medical
College at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City during which she
received the Humanism Award. She has completed a Family Planning
Fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston
University School of Medicine and is now the medical director in the
Division of Family Planning. In addition to research and clinical work
in contraception and abortion technologies, Dr. Carr-Ellis has pursued
her MPH at Boston University School of Public Health and training in
clinical investigations through the Boston University CREST Program, a
fellowship funded by the National Institute of Health K-30 educational
grant. Her areas of interest are family planning, health care policy,
medical education and women with disabilities.
Karen Edlund, RN
Director
Ms. Edlund has been Director of the Family Planning Program at the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health Since 1992, where she
developed and manages the state’s family planning program, which
provides comprehensive family planning services in over 80 sites
statewide. She has been responsible for developing and shaping the
program standards, as well as developing other systems such as billing,
reporting, monitoring and evaluation. She has also developed
significant program initiatives in the areas of emergency
contraception, abortion access and social marketing. She has served as
chair of the State Family Planning Administrators, a national family
planning organization, and has been a member of its Steering Committee
since 1996.
Robert Kushen, Esq.
Director
Robert Kushen is the Executive Director of the
Harvard Pepfar Program, an HIV treatment program operating in three countries
in Africa and serving 75,000 patients. Formerly, Rob was the Director of
International Operations at the Open Society Institute, where he was
responsible for supervising program and grant making operations for
philanthropic network in over fifty countries.
From 1999-2002, Rob served as Executive Director of Doctors of the
World, a non-governmental organization committed to addressing health care
problems caused by human rights abuses. He has also served as an
Attorney-Adviser to the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of
State. Rob is a member of the New York Bar Association and the Council on
Foreign Relations and serves on the Boards of several non-governmental
organizations, including the Mental
Disability Advocacy
Center and EmPower
Foundation. He is the author of a number of publications in the area of human
rights and non-profit law.
Lisa Levine, MPH
Director
Ms. Levine is the Chief Operating Officer of Dorchester House, a
multi-service health center located in one of Boston’s largest and most
diverse neighborhoods. Lisa also serves as COO of Health Services
Partnership of Dorchester, Inc., a formal partnership of Codman Square
Health Center and Dorchester House Multi-Service Center that provides
joint care coordination, joint management of behavioral health,
combined quality improvement and compliance functions, improved managed
care and member services for a combined patient population of over
41,000. Prior to her present positions, Lisa directed the Division of
Primary Care and Health Access at the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, and for six years served as Associate Director of the
Generalist Physician Initiative at Boston University School of
Medicine.
To learn more about Dorchester House, visit www.dorchesterhouse.org
Janet Singer, CNM
Director
Ms. Singer has been a Certified Nurse Midwife since 1991 and a Clinical
Teaching Associate at Brown Medical School since 1998 where she
regularly lectures on abortion to medical students, ob residents, and
midwifery students. Trained in surgical abortion in 1998, she has
presented on abortion at the American College of Nurse Midwives and
helped change Rhode Island health department regulations to expand role
of midlevel providers in abortion provision.
Melanie Zurek, EdM
Director
Ms. Zurek has been the Executive Director of the Abortion Access
Project since August 2004. Prior to joining AAP, Ms. Zurek managed
education and training programs for the Family Planning Program at the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health and was the Coordinator of
Professional Education at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern
Massachusetts Abortion Fund.
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