CBAS steering committee

Role of the steering committee

The role of the CBAS steering committee is to provide guidance and oversight of CBAS activities. Specific responsibilities include:

• reviewing key materials produced for CBAS,
• providing input on CBAS plans and initiatives, and
• promoting CBAS to colleagues and other organizations.

Current steering committee

Designed to be representative of clinical and social science work being done on cervical barriers and related products globally, the current steering committee includes the following individuals:

• Mags Beksinska
  Maternal Adolescent and Child Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of the Witwatersrand (MatCH)
• Marianne Callahan
  CONRAD
• Tsungai Chipato
  UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research Programme in Women’s Health
• Patricia Coffey
  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
• Bidia Deperthes
  United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• Maggie Kilbourne-Brook
  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
• Helen Rees
  Reproductive Health Research Unit (RHRU)
• Kelley Ryan
  Duke Clinical Research Institute
• Jill Schwartz
  CONRAD
• Ariane van der Straten
  Women’s Global Health Imperative, RTI