Nick Danforth
Areas of Expertise
International Reproductive and Sexual Health
Email: nwd@brandeis.edu
Current Project
My current research, affiliated with the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, seeks to improve women’s health by reaching men. In particular, I am reviewing the results of behavior change programs encouraging “ABC” (abstinence for youth; being faithful; or using condoms) in African countries where AIDS is most prevalent.
Biography
A former board member of the International Center for Research on Women, the Women’s Medical Center, and the Men and Reproductive Health Task Force of the American Public Health Association, he has worked in over 20 developing countries with USAID, the UN, World Bank, Planned Parenthood, Management Sciences for Health, EngenderHealth, the Global Alliance for Women’s Health, and many NGOs.
Nick was the sole male delegate appointed by President Carter to the 1980 UN Women’s Conference. At the 1994 Cairo Population Conference, the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference, and recent meetings of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Nick advocated policies to increase men’s access to reproductive health services. His current research on reaching men to improve women’s reproductive health is in collaboration with the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project.
He was recently honored by NARAL Pro-Choice America at the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade “for outstanding service in defending women’s freedom and privacy”.
Education
Ed.M., Harvard University
M.I.A., Columbia University
B.A., Yale University
Representative Publications
“The time has come for common ground on preventing sexual transmission of HIV”, Comment in The Lancet, Nov. 27, 2004, pp. 1913-15
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