Contact
Research Areas
International Reproductive and Sexual Health
Education
Ed.M., Harvard University
M.I.A., Columbia University
B.A., Yale University
Nick Danforth
Nick Danforth
Nick advocates strategies to empower women, prevent gender violence and stop AIDS by changing men’s sexual behaviors. In the United States he counseled men at New York’s first nonprofit abortion clinic, and managed the foundation that won Roe v. Wade (1973) in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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, Nick has worked in more than 20 developing countries with USAID, the United Nations (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 (1973) “for outstanding service in defending women’s freedom and privacy.”
Current Projects
On leave for the 2011-2012 Academic Year.
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