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Nahla Abdel-Tawab has been an associate for the Frontiers in Reproductive Health program (FRONTIERS) since December 2003. She works closely with the Egyptian government and leading NGOs to identify operations research (OR) studies that address pressing needs and issues in reproductive Health. She also provides technical and managerial leadership for the implementation and monitoring of various OR studies and technical assistance activities in reproductive health and family planning. Abdel-Tawab communicates and disseminates the results of OR at the national, regional, and international levels with an emphasis on influencing policy change. She also supervises the scale-up of research as well as the utilization of research results by policymakers and program managers to improve reproductive health services.

Heading the FRONTIERS Cairo team, currently she is managing and supervising the following projects: a joint study with the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) on helping women achieve optimal birth spacing intervals through integration of maternal and child health and family planning services; a joint study with the TAHSEEN/CATALYST project and the MOHP on linking family planning with postabortion care services; INTACT, an international network of researchers, activists, and scholars that aims at speeding up the process of abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting; and conducting utilization activities and drawing programmatic implications from the Slow Fertility Transition Survey to assist the Egyptian government in achieving the national goal of replacement-level fertility in Egypt by 2017.

Abdel-Tawab joined the Council in 1995 as a research fellow, then as program officer for FRONTIERS. In April 2000 she moved to Kuwait where she worked as a freelance consultant followed by one year as a behavior change communication specialist for the TAHSEEN/CATALYST project in Cairo.

Abdel-Tawab has given presentations at conferences and workshops both locally and internationally. She holds a medical degree from Cairo University, an M.P.H. from Tulane University, and a Dr.P.H. in behavioral sciences and health education from Johns Hopkins University. She has won a number of fellowships/awards and is member of several professional associations.

Abdel-Tawab is affiliated with the Population Council's Reproductive Health program.