The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health & Ethics
Scholars
Rev.
Dr. Gloria H. Albrecht
Associate Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Detroit Mercy
Rev. Dr. Gloria H. Albrecht is a Christian
feminist ethicist whose focus is on issues of social justice, particularly economic
issues, from the perspective of women's experiences. She is Associate Professor
of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy. She has written two books,
The Character of Our Communities: Toward an Ethic of Liberation for the Church,
1995 and Welfare Policy: Feminist Critiques, 1999. Dr. Albrecht is a member of
the American Academy of Religion, Association of Professional and Practical Ethics,
the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Northeast Feminist Ethics Consultation.
Dr.Albrecht's views are her own and do not indicate or imply institutional agreement
with her views"
Dr.
Jose Barzelatto
Vice President, Center for Health and Social
Policy
Dr. Jose Barzelatto is Vice President of the Center for Health
and Social Policy, a recently established NGO with the goal of contributing to
the improvement of health worldwide. Previously, he was the Director of Reproductive
Health and Population at the Ford Foundation and Director, Special Program of
Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction at the World
Health Organization (WHO). To date, Dr. Barzelatto has published over 100 works.
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Dr. Mary C. Churchill
Assistant professor of women's studies
and religious
studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Churchill's areas of concentration include women's studies and Native American
religions. She has lectured and published a number of articles on these subjects
in American Indian Quarterly, Gay and Lesbian Biography, New Scholar, Lesbian
Histories and Cultures and Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion. She is a
member of the National Women's Studies Association, American Academy of Religion,
Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions and the Association
for the Study of American Indian Literatures. She is a fellow at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, for 2001-2002.
Dr. Christine E. Gudorf
Associate Professor at the Department
of Religion and Who_are_we, Florida International University
Christine
Gudorf is an associate professor at the department of Religion and Who_are_we
at Florida International University. Ms. Gudorf is a Catholic theologian who has
written a number of articles on ethics, religion, reproductive health, women's
issues, sexuality and spirituality. She has traveled to Latin and South America
and Eastern Europe on various religious and feminist research projects. Her published
books include Body, Sex and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics,
1994, Victimization: Examining Christian Complicity, 1992; and, Women's Consciousness:
A Reader in Feminist Ethics, 1985. She is a member of the American Academy of
Religion, Society of Christian Ethics and a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
Dr.
Riffat Hassan
Professor, Religious Studies and Humanities
professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky
Dr.
Riffat Hassan is a feminist Muslim theologian and Religious Studies and Humanities
professor at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Originally
from Pakistan, Dr. Hassan is world renowned for her work toward progressive Muslim
thought. She has lectured throughout the world on Muslim faith and the rights
of Muslim women. In 1994, Hassan served as a plenary speaker at the United Nations
International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. The following
year, Dr. Hassan addressed over 30,000 women from all over the world at the UN
Fourth World Conference on Women in China. She has taught and lectured at Villanova
University, the University of Pennsylvania, Oklahoma State University and Harvard
University.
Dr.
Ping Hsiung
Chair of the Cultural and Intellectual History
Department, Institute of Modern History
Hsiung, Ping Chen is the Chair
of the Cultural and Intellectual History Department at the Institute of Modern
History, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan (ROC). She is also a research fellow
at the same institute and sits on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Institute
of Modern History. Her fields of specialization are modern Chinese cultural and
social history, medicine and health. She has published a number of books on these
subjects and has lectured in the United States, Taiwan (ROC) and Germany. She
is also the Founder and Director of the Research Center for Medicine and Culture
at the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University.
Dr. Anrudh K. Jain
Senior Director
of Policy and Regional Programs, International Programs Division of the Population
Council
Anrudh Jain is the Senior Director of Policy and Regional Programs
in the International Programs Division of the Population Council. He is trained
as a social demographer, but his research interests span a wide range of topics
in population and health. He has published over 70 articles in peer reviewed journals,
books, and proceedings on topics related to population policy, fertility, reproductive
health and family planning, safety and effectiveness of contraceptives, marketing
of contraceptives and management of pregnancies. He has edited or co-authored
five books on population policies, contraceptive use and fertility in Gujarat,
quality of care, infant mortality in India and fertility in Asia.
Dr.
Sandhya Jain
Social Development Consultant and Columnist,
The Pioneer
Sandhya Jain is a social development consultant and columnist
with The Pioneer, a leading newspaper of Delhi. Ms. Jain writes extensively on
contemporary issues relating to the ethos of India, underdevelopment, education,
women, child and social abuse. She is a member of the Media Editorial Board of
Stree Shakti, the official magazine of the Department of Women and Child Development,
Ministry of HRD. She is also a contributing member of the Indo-UK Roundtable.
Dr. Sa'diyya Shaikh
National Conference for Community and Justice
Sa'diyya Shaikh
is a fulltime PhD candidate working on her dissertation on Marriage, Sexuality
and Gender in Islam at the Department of Religion at Temple University. She was
the Director of Seminarians Interacting at the National Conference for Community
and Justice from 1991 to 2001. Ms. Shaikh specializes in the study of Islam and
women's issues and has presented numerous conference papers on these subjects.
Dr. Ge Ling Shang
Research fellow in Chinese Who_are_we and ethics, Harvard-Yenchin Institute,
Harvard University
Hsiung, Ping Chen is the Chair of the Cultural and
Intellectual History Department at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
in Taipei, Taiwan (ROC). She is also a research fellow at the same institute and
sits on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History.
Her fields of specialization are modern Chinese cultural and social history, medicine
and health. She has published a number of books on these subjects and has lectured
in the United States, Taiwan (ROC) and Germany. She is also the Founder and Director
of the Research Center for Medicine and Culture at the College of Medicine, National
Taiwan University.
Dr.
Arvind Sharma
Professor, McGill University
Dr. Arvind
Sharma is a professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal,
Canada and a Lecturer at the Department of Studies in Religion at the University
of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Sharma specializes in the study of Hinduism and has
written extensively on the subject. His most recent works include A Jain Perspective
on the Who_are_we of Religion (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2001); Classical Hindu
Thought: An Introduction (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000); and The Concept
of Universal Religion in Modern Hindu Thought (London: Macmillan, 1998; New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1998). He has consulted for both the United States and
Indian governments on matters of culture and ethics in Hinduism.
Dr.
Parichart Suwanbubha
Lecturer, Mahidol University
Parichart Suwanbubha is a theologian lecturing at Mahidol University in Salaya,
Thailand. She received her Ph.D in Systematic Theology at the Lutheran School
of Theology in Chicago and is currently researching Buddhism in Hamburg, Germany.
Ms. Suwanbubha has given numerous presentations on Buddhism in the United States,
Germany, Singapore and Thailand. She has published a number of articles on the
role of Buddhism in economics, medicine, culture and ethics. She is a member of
the American Academy of Religion and the World Fellowship for Buddhists.
Dr.
Laurie Zoloth
Director of Bioethics, Northwestern University
She is President-Elect of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
She is also the co-founder of the Ethics Practice, a group that has provided bioethics
consultation and education services to health care providers and health care systems
nationally. She has taught, researched and published extensively in the areas
of ethics, family, feminist theory, Jewish studies and social policy. Her book,
The Ethics of Encounter, on justice, health policy, the Oregon health care reforms
and the ethics of community was published in the fall of 1999. She is on the national
advisory boards of a number of organizations and associations and is a member
of the editorial board of Shofar, The Journal of Clinical Ethics and the Second
Opinion.