Phyllis Tilson Piotrow
Quick Facts
Biography
Phyllis Tilson Piotrow (born. 16 March 1933) was founder and first director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs.
Career and education
Phyllis Tilson Piotrow graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1954 before going on to study at the University of Oxford. In 1956, she graduated Bachelor in Modern History first class and Master of Arts in 1959.
In 1971, she became Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and Population Dynamics from Johns Hopkins University in 1971. Dr. Piotrow founded the Center for Communication Programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and served for many years as the Executive Director of Popular Action International (PAI) as well as chairing the Population and Family Planning section of the American Public Health Association.
Dr. Piotrow has been a consultant to the United Nations, to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and to the US Government during the 1974 World Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania.
Publications
- World Population: The Present And Future Crisis.
- World Population Crisis: the United States ’ Response.
- Six Billion People: Demographic Dilemmas and World Politics (with George P. Tapinos).
- Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health (with D. Lawrence Kincaid, Jose G. Rimon).
- Strategies For Family Planning Promotion.
- Family Planning: Improving Opportunities for Women