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Former Population Council Vice President Remembered

NEW YORK (February 2004) — W. Parker Mauldin, former Population Council vice president, died on 16 January at the age of 89 in Charlottesville, VA. Calling him “one of the architects of the Population Council,” Council president Linda Martin praised him as “a leading demographer who made original and influential contributions to the evaluation and implementation of family planning programs. Throughout his career, Parker was committed to improving the lives of women and men in the developing world.”

Mauldin came to the Council in 1957 as part of the staff of the then Demographic Division. One of his early assignments involved spending an academic year in India to help establish the first United Nations Demographic Training and Research Centre in Bombay (now Mumbai). He became director of the Council's Demographic Division in 1967, served as vice president from 1969 to 1974, and was acting president from October 1974 to early 1976. Mauldin left the Council in 1979 but rejoined it in 1987 as a senior associate and had an adjunct appointment until 1997.

 

The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental research organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. Established in 1952, the Council is governed by an international board of trustees. Its New York headquarters supports a global network of regional and country offices.  ### Media contacts Melissa May, APR: mmay@popcouncil.org +1 212 339 0525 Diane Rubino: drubino@popcouncil.org +1 212 339 0617

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