Anu Kumar, PhD, MPH

Anu Kumar is executive vice president of Ipas, an international nonprofit organization that focuses on women's sexual and reproductive rights and abortion issues; she oversees fundraising and communications for the agency. A Fulbright scholar in India, she earned a PhD in anthropology and an MPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Ipas, Kumar was senior program officer in the population and reproductive health area of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; a social scientist at the World Health Organization's Reproductive Health Research Division; and assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her board responsibilities have included Apna Ghar and the World Health Organization Special Programme on Research in Tropical Disease.