Martha Madison Campbell teaches as a Lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.  She is a political scientist and health policy specialist with interests in population, economics, issues of scale, and reproductive rights for women. In the 1990s she directed the population program in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, California, where she designed the international program, while also being responsible for the foundation’s reproductive rights grants in the United States. In 2000 she formed Venture Strategies, to help facilitate-large scale health and reproductive health change where it is wanted in low resource countries; but also to invent a new model of nonprofit structure, insistently remaining compact in the United States while working closely with a network of colleagues in many countries.

Dr. Campbell led the first comprehensive review of the broad range of barriers that stand between women in low resource settings and the family planning methods and information they need for managing their childbearing.  This paper, “Barriers to Fertility Regulation”, was published in 2006, with her husband Malcolm Potts and Turkish doctor Nuriye Hodoglugil (see Publications).  Drs. Campbell and Potts along with Dr. Ndola Prata have constructed together a “freedom” or “opportunity” theoretical explanation (or model) using existing evidence for understanding declines in countries’ average family size.  It focuses on women’s reproductive options, and contains evidence that population growth can be slowed in a voluntary, human rights framework.

She has written and spoken widely on the sensitivities and widespread silence around the subject of population growth, and the nature of conflicting perspectives in this area.  Her academic degrees are from Wellesley College and the University of Colorado.

Lauren has extensive experience in the area of international maternal and child health. Drawing on her background in journalism, anthropology, and public health, she has worked in United Nations organizations and other international NGOs in Ecuador, Honduras, Uganda, Thailand and Kenya. Prior to joining Venture Strategies she served as a researcher for the Berkeley Human Rights Center, assisting in a project to establish accountability for sexual assault in Kenya following the 2007 post-election violence. Her work at Venture Strategies includes directing research on determinants of fertility decline and implementing national and global population policies.

 

Lauren holds a master in medical anthropology and a master in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, originally from Malawi, is the Director of AFIDEP. Before founding AFIDEP Eliya Zulu was the Deputy Director and Director of Research at the acclaimed African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). He also headed at APHRC the Urbanization and Wellbeing Research Program, and the Policy Engagement and Communications Unit. He is the elected president of UAPS, the Union for African Population Studies and he also holds the title of Director of Development Policy in the Berkeley, California-based nonprofit organization Venture Strategies for Health and Development. Zulu’s research and policy engagement interests cover a wide range of issues in international development, including population growth, urbanization, reproductive health, poverty, health systems, and policy analysis. Zulu earned his PhD in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Population and Development at the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Social Science in Economics and Applied Statistics at the University of Malawi.

Matthew Hamilton graduated from North Carolina State University in 2004 with BS degrees in physics and mathematics. After graduation, Matt entered the Biomathematics Graduate Program at NCSU, where he studied statistics and ecology. His research used mathematical models and computer simulations to study mechanisms that generate and sustain complexity in ecological systems. After graduating with an MS in Biomathematics in 2007, Matt came to Berkeley to study global health and development.

 

While enrolled in the Berkeley MPH program, Matt worked for VSHD on two output-based aid programs in western Uganda. Output-based aid (OBA) is a way to increase utilization of facility-based health services by means of a direct subsidy in the form of a voucher. Patients purchase vouchers at a subsidized price and trade them for care at contracted private sector health care facilities, which then submit claims for reimbursement. The first OBA program in Uganda, known as HealthyLife, provided voucher patients with affordable testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. Matt collaborated with Berkeley doctoral student Ben Bellows to measure the program’s population impact and cost-effectiveness.

  After graduating in 2009, Matt stayed on at VSHD to conduct a population survey and impact evaluation of the second OBA program in Uganda, known as HealthyBaby, which provided poor mothers with access to facility-based maternal deliveries. Matt’s interests include impact evaluation, survey design, and causal effect estimation; performance-based financing mechanisms; and private sector health care in developing countries.

Prior to joining Venture Strategies for Health and Development, Nadia worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India, doing a study on maternal anemia in the low income and slum population.  While pursuing her master's degree, Nadia focused her thesis research on malaria in pregnancy in India.  As an undergraduate, she conducted thesis research on fertility decline in Southern India, specifically looking at gender preference and sex selective practices.  Nadia also worked at San Francisco General Hospital doing research on hepatitis B.  Nadia has participated in research projects in Tanzania on contraceptive use and maternal mortality while an intern with the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability, and in rural Guatemala on the effects of indoor air pollution on maternal and child health.

Nadia received a master of science degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a bachelor of arts in Human Biology from Brown University.

Karen is a native of Hong Kong.  Her experience ranges from proteomics research, healthcare information technology, to HIV/AIDS prevention. She has worked in both public and private sectors including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oracle Corporation and UCSF Institute for Global Health.  She was recently a contract program advisor at United Nations Population Fund, China, based in Beijing.  Her work focused on advocating for the improvement of condom quality in China and its implication on HIV/AIDS programs, and integrating HIV/AIDS services into the existing far-reaching family planning system.  Karen is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and proficient in Spanish.