Dr. Sharon Camp was the

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and President of the Guttmacher Institute until her retirement effective July 15, 2013.

Career

Before her tenure at Guttmacher, Camp was the founder, CEO and President of Women’s Capital Corporation, “the company responsible for the development and commercialization of the Plan B emergency contraceptive.” The small pharmaceutical company was founded in January 1997 and is considered to be the mother of Plan B. Camp was a key author of the Programme of Action adopted by the world’s governments at the 1994 International Conference on Population. From 1975 to 1993, Dr. Camp helped lead Population Action International including as Senior Vice President. Dr. Camp has chaired the boards of

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, the National Council for International Health (now the Global Health Council), and the

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, and was founding Chair of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project.

Education

She is an honors graduate of Pomona College (class of 1965) and holds a Ph.D. in international studies from Johns Hopkins University as well as a M.A. from the same institution.

References

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