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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
Diana Measham
Consultant
Gender, Family, and Development Program
Diana Measham has been a consultant to the Population Council's Gender, Family, and Development Program since 1994, serving as co-editor of Responding to Cairo: Case studies of changing practice in reproductive health and family planning and technical coordinator of the Working Group on Reproductive Health and Family Planning.
She is also on the staff of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the AIDS Research Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, where she is collaborating on a multi-site program of research on gender and reproductive health outcomes. Before becoming a consultant, Measham was on the Population Council staff, coordinating postpartum care research for the International Programs Division.
Prior to joining the Council, she was senior program associate at Family Care International, where she was responsible for general operations and management in collaboration with the President, and managed Safe Motherhood advocacy, research and technical assistance activities, primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean. Measham has also served as a consultant to Family Health International, the International Planned Parenthood/Western Hemisphere Region, Ipas, the MotherCare Project, UNFPA, UNICEF, and the World Bank.
Measham received an M.Sc. in economics, specializing in health planning and financing, from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She is currently completing doctoral work in reproductive epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation research is focused on gender-based power and reproductive health outcomes in Karnataka State, India.
A partial list of publications includes:
- Haberland, Nicole and Diana Measham, eds. 2002. Responding
to Cairo: Case studies of changing practice in reproductive health
and family planning. New York: Population Council.
- Haberland, Nicole, B. Ndugga Maggwa, Christopher Elias, and
Diana Measham. 2002. "Pitfalls and possibilities: Managing
RTIs in family planning and general reproductive health services,"
in Nicole Haberland and Diana Measham, eds., Responding to Cairo:
Case studies of changing practice in reproductive health and family
planning. New York: Population Council, pp. 292–317.
- Janowitz, B., Diana Measham, and C. West. 1999. Issues
in the Financing of Family Planning Services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Research Triangle Park, NC: Family Health International.
- K. Otsea, J. Benson, Diana Measham, M. Thorley, and R.
Lidh. 1999. Monitoring Postabortion Care. Technical Resources
for Postabortion Care, Vol. 3. Chapel Hill, NC: Ipas.
- Stein, K., Diana Measham, and B. Winikoff. 1998. "The Quality of services provided to breastfeeding family planning clients in Senegal," International Family Planning Perspectives 24(4): 188–190.
