Phyllis Tilson Piotrow
Dr. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow | |
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| Born | New York City, New York, US |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Population problems, Communication programs |
Phyllis Tilson Piotrow (born 1933[citation needed][needs update?]) is an American academic. She is the founder and former first director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs.[1]
Career and education
[edit]Phyllis Tilson Piotrow graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1954 with honors in history before going on to study at St Anne's College, Oxford as a Marshall Scholar.[citation needed] In 1956, she graduated Bachelor in Modern History with first class honours and Master of Arts in 1959.[citation needed]. From 1960 to 1965 she served as a Legislative Assistant to US Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York.[citation needed]
In 1971 she became Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and Population Dynamics from Johns Hopkins University in 1971.[citation needed] Piotrow founded the Center for Communication Programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and served as Director until 2001. She retired as a tenured professor. She had served for many years as the founding Executive Director of Population Action International (PAI)[1] as well as chairing the Population and Family Planning section of the American Public Health Association.[1]
Piotrow has been a consultant to the United Nations, to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and to the US Government during the 1974 World Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania.[1]
Publications
[edit]- World Population: The Present And Future Crisis
- World Population Crisis: the United States' Response
- Six Billion People: Demographic Dilemmas and World Politics (with George P. Tapinos)[2]
- Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health (with D. Lawrence Kincaid, Jose G. Rimon)[3]
- Strategies For Family Planning Promotion
- Family Planning: Improving Opportunities for Women
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, Ph.D. - PAI". PAI. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ "Six Billion People". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- ^ "Health Communication". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-21.