Malcolm Potts

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Malcolm Potts
Alma mater Cambridge University
Scientific career
Fields Reproductive health, Population, Family planning
Institutions School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

David Malcolm Potts is an American human reproductive scientist and emeritus [1] Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

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He was the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning and founding director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability at the School of Public Health. [2] [3]

Biography

Potts completed a medical degree and a PhD in embryology (on the electron microscopy of mammalian implantation) at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he co-founded the first clinic offering contraception to young people. [4] He advised David Steel on the UK's 1967 Abortion Act. He was the first male doctor at the Marie Stopes Clinic in London.

He became the first Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1968. In 1972, he was the first physician to promote the technique of uterine manual vacuum aspiration. He then moved to the United States and became CEO of Family Health International (FHI) from 1978 to 1990. During this period, FHI became the largest global AIDS prevention programme outside of the World Health Organization.

He has published ten books and over 350 scientific papers and articles. His books include Abortion (co-written with Peter Diggory and John Peel, 1977), Textbook of Contraceptive Practice (1st edition co-written with John Peel, 1969; 2nd edition co-written with Peter Diggory, 1983; long the key textbook in the field), Queen Victoria's Gene (written with his brother Prof. William Potts), Ever since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (written with Dr Roger Short, 1999) [5] [6] [7] and Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World (co-written with Thomas Hayden, 2008). [8] [9] He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and the British, American, Canadian and Egyptian governments.

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Potts has been married four times, including to Dr. Caroline Deys in 1966, [4] and has three children.

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References

  1. "CCCR 2020 Malcolm Potts - Act Now and Slow Global Population Growth". YouTube . 11 December 2020.
  2. Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability Archived 18 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Malcolm Potts MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG". UC Berkeley School of Public Health. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  4. 1 2 Potts, Henry W W. (2019). "Caroline Deys". BMJ: l5761. doi:10.1136/bmj.l5761. S2CID   220104647.
  5. "Home". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  6. Kimler, William (1999). "Book Review: Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short". American Scientist: 362–366.
  7. Evans, Imogen (December 1999). "Book Review: Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Malcolm Potts and Roger Short". J R Soc Med. 92 (12): 653–655. doi:10.1177/014107689909201215. PMC   1297477 .
  8. Sex and War website Archived 28 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Konner, Melvin (8 March 2009). "Book Review: 'Sex and War' by Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden". The Washington Post.
  10. 1 2 "List of Fellows". Raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2019.