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MEDIA CENTER First of Three New Population Council Directorships Filled by NIH Veteran Wendy Baldwin NEW YORK, NY (27 July 2006) — The Population Council announced today that Wendy Baldwin, Ph.D. (bio) has assumed the leadership of the organization’s new Poverty, Gender, and Youth program. Baldwin will play a leading role in setting the program’s agenda and establishing its overall strategy, goals, and priorities. She will work with the Council’s regional directors and worldwide professional staff in priority setting, program development, fundraising, and staff recruitment, and will represent the Council to governments, donor agencies, and professional organizations. She is the first of three new directors of the programs created as the result of the Population Council's recent substantive strategic planning initiative. The new organizational structure is designed to encourage innovation and cross-fertilization among the Council’s biomedical and social scientists. The search process for the directors for the other two programs—HIV and AIDS, and Reproductive Health—continues. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology and demography from the University of Kentucky, Baldwin joined the staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). From 1973 to 1993, she served as chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences branch and as deputy director at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She joined the NICHD's Office of the Director in 1993 as deputy director for extramural research, one of the most influential positions in American health research: The extramural program represents over 80 percent of the NIH budget, awarding nearly 10,000 grants each year. After leaving NIH in 2003, she returned to the University of Kentucky to take up her current position as executive vice president for research. She has served on influential committees of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Department of Health and Human Services. For the past 20 years she has worked with the World Health Organization, serving since 1988 as the chair and collaborating scientist of the Steering Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research on Reproductive Health. Baldwin's long publications record includes important contributions in the areas of reproductive health and adolescent behavior. About the Population Council ### Media contacts Population Council
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