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Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Committee Biographies
Pages 212-218
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Dr. Strauss is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, and is the current president of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation.
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, New York, NY. In this capacity, she oversees clinical services, clinical business development, the PPFA Nurse Practitioners Program in Women's Health, the newly established PPFA Multi-Center Trial Network, and Affiliate Evaluation Department.
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Global Advisory Committee on Health Research. Former positions include director of the United Nations Development Program/United Nations Population Fund/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction; senior adviser, Biomedical and Reproductive Health Research, the Rockefeller Foundation; president of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics; and chairman of the International Medical Advisory Panel of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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Gregory S Kopf, Ph.D., is the assistant vice president for contraception, Women's Health Research Institute at Wyeth Research in Collegeville, PA, and adjunct professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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The major objective of her international research program is to reduce the risk of HIV infection among young women primarily through the use of femalecontrolled methods of prevention, such as microbicides or barrier contraceptives, and through the development of programs that foster economic independence and thus reduce reliance on male sexual partners. In collaboration with colleagues at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)
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She served as adviser on several ad hoc committees of the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health. She received her medical doctorate at the University of Paris and is currently an adjunct professor at Rockefeller University.
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Capacitation A process that takes place in the female reproductive tract by which sperm acquire the ability to fertilize an egg. cDNA see Complementary DNA cDNA subtraction hybridization methods A technique used to identify genes expressed differentially between two tissue samples.
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