Jain Named Head of International Programs Anrudh K. Jain, who has had a leadership role in the Council’s largest division—International Programs (IPD)—for over 20 years, has been named its vice president and director. “This appointment officially acknowledges Anrudh’s importance to the Council,” President Peter J. Donaldson said.  | | Photo credit: Karen Tweedy-Holmes/Population Council |
Jain has played a key role in the Council’s recent strategic planning process, traveling with Donaldson to Council overseas offices, where they collected valuable ideas from regional staff and discussed the strategic plan and its implications. Jain served as senior director of policy and regional programs in IPD from 1998 until his promotion to VP. He joined the Council in 1971 as staff associate based in New Delhi, India, moved to the Center for Biomedical Research in New York in 1973, and shifted to the International Programs Division in 1976. Before joining the Council, he worked with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, and at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1968. Jain has played an important role in shaping the research and program agenda in international population and reproductive health by identifying links between quality of care and fertility behavior and by detailing a reproductive health approach to family planning. He collaborated as a founding member of the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi and served on its Board of Directors until 2005. He has edited, authored, or co-authored five books and over 70 research papers on population policy, fertility, reproductive health, and related subjects.(Return to issue contents)
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