Ilene Speizer is currently Research Professor of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. She is a demographer and evaluation research and has led research and evaluation studies in Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Malawi, Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, and South Africa), India, Haiti, and the U.S. Much of her work focuses on family planning, HIV prevention, the meaning and measurement of unintended pregnancy, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and gender-based violence. She has led large research and evaluation projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She is co-leading an International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations Panel on Measuring Family Planning with a Reproductive Rights and Justice Lens.

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