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Julia Bunting

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Julia Bunting
NationalityBritish
OccupationDemographer
Known forNinth president of the Population Council
Director at the International Planned Parenthood Federation

Julia Bunting is a British demographer who is the ninth president of the Population Council, since March 2015.[1] She currently works to build a body of research on how best to support young girls.[2]

Early life

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During an exchange visit to rural areas of Tanzania, she saw firsthand great disparities in reproductive healthcare.[2]

Career

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Bunting is known for her work on reproductive and maternal health during her 12-year tenure at the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), where she oversaw the government's policies for international development on HIV/AIDS, maternal, newborn, and child health and rights, and population.[3] There, she campaigned to address maternal mortality as a tractable problem, and worked on the FP2020 pledge to grant access to contraceptives and family planning to 120 million girls and women in the world's poorest countries.[2] She helped develop the global quantitative goal of "120 by 20" at the London Summit on Family Planning in July 2012,[4] which she helped organize, along with a 2017 revival of the summit. The 2012 summit raised $2.6 billion.[5]

She also served as a director at the International Planned Parenthood Federation, as a Programme and Technical lead.[3]

Under her leadership, the Population Council-developed (in conjunction with pharmaceutical company TherapeuticsMD) contraceptive vaginal ring Annovera obtained FDA approval in 2018.[6] The device lasts a year and does not require refrigeration or regular clinic visits, making it well-suited for use in low-income countries. The Population Council also announced in 2018 that their contraceptive gel for men had entered phase two clinical trials,[7] specifically a skin-applied Nestorone/testosterone hormonal gel.[8]

Awards

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In 2013, Julia was inducted as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for improving reproductive health in developing countries.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "PMNCH | Population Council". WHO. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Icons & Activists: 50 years of people making change" (PDF). UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Julia Bunting | Population Council". www.popcouncil.org. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ^ Brown, Win; Druce, Nel; Bunting, Julia; Radloff, Scott; Koroma, Desmond; Gupta, Srishti; Siems, Brian; Kerrigan, Monica; Kress, Dan; Darmstadt, Gary L. (2014). "Developing the "120 by 20" Goal for the Global FP2020 Initiative". Studies in Family Planning. 45 (1): 73–84. doi:10.1111/j.1728-4465.2014.00377.x. ISSN 1728-4465. PMID 24615576.
  5. ^ Edwards, Sophie (17 May 2017). "Plans for major family planning summit take shape in Europe as US cuts back". Devex. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  6. ^ Miller, Korin (14 August 2018). "A Birth Control Ring You Can Use for a Whole Year Is Now FDA-Approved". SELF. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  7. ^ Edwards, Sophie (16 November 2018). "View from the ground: International Conference on Family Planning 2018". Devex. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Nestorone®/Testosterone Transdermal Gel for Male Contraception". www.popcouncil.org. Population Council. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Julia Bunting". She Decides. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
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