Answering Your Question About Family Planning
Summary: While on the ground in Kenya, Stephen Morrison had the opportunity to respond to a reader’s question about family planning efforts.
At CSIS, J. Stephen Morrison is director of the Center on Global Health Policy and a Senior Vice President. Under his leadership, the Center secured a multiyear $6.3 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with major contributions from other corporate and foundation contributors, which underwrite work to advance a long-term strategic U.S. approach to global health, cultivate new global health champions, enrich our understanding of the security and foreign policy dimensions of global health, and link Washington-based work to emerging policy expertise in key developing and middle income countries. Beginning in the spring of 2009, he directed the CSIS Commission on a Smart Global Health Policy, comprised of 25 diverse high-level opinion leaders. Its findings are detailed in the final report ‘A Healthier, Safer, and More Prosperous World: Report of the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy,’ published in March 2010.
Dr. Morrison writes widely, testifies often before Congress, and is a frequent contributor in major media on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance. He served for seven years in the Clinton Administration, four years as committee staff in the House of Represesentatives, and taught for twelve years as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.
Summary: While on the ground in Kenya, Stephen Morrison had the opportunity to respond to a reader’s question about family planning efforts.
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