Susan Cohen
Director of Government Affairs
Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
(202) 296-4012
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Susan Cohen is Assistant Director for Policy Development at The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) Washington office where she has worked since 1978. She is responsible for coordinating the political and policy development aspects of AGI Washington-based activities.
AGI is engaged in research, public education and advocacy concerning reproductive health and rights issues domestically and with regard to U.S. policy internationally. Cohen works closely with other national women's rights, public health, civil rights, international development and environmental groups to further common goals. In addition, she regularly communicates with the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch about policy and program implications for reproductive health of legislative and administrative decision-making.
Cohen has served on the boards of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association and AVSC International, as Chair of the Population and Family Planning Section of the American Public Health Association, on the National Governing Council of the American Jewish Congress and as President of the Wallenberg Chapter of the American Jewish Congress/National Capital Region.
She earned her Masters in Public Health degree at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) School of Public Health in 1978, specializing in maternal and child health. She earned her BA from Vassar College in 1975.
Cohen wrote, with Cory Richards, "The Cairo Consensus: Population, Development and Women," which appears in International Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 26. No. 6, Nov/Dec, 1994. She is also the author of "The Road from Rio to Cairo: Toward A Common Agenda," in International Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 2, June, 1993. She is a regular contributor to AGI’s policy journal, The Guttmacher Report, and is the author of numerous AGI Issues in Brief policy papers, including “The Role of Contraception in Reducing Abortion,” September, 1997. |
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