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Judith Bruce is a senior associate and the director of the Population Council’s Gender, Family, and Development Program. Since joining the Council in 1977, she has developed and coordinated programs and policy-oriented research related to the social and economic development of adolescents (particularly girls), women's roles and status, gender relations, intra-family dynamics, and quality of reproductive health care. Bruce has written and lectured extensively in these areas, and also on the subjects of population policy, investments in children, family and partnership dynamics, and women's access to and control of resources inside and outside of the household. Prior to joining the Population Council as an associate, she worked as a consultant for the US Department of State and the international division of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
A graduate of Harvard University, Bruce has received several honors for her work, including the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Women in Development in 1993 from the Association of Women in Development. She has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for nearly 30 years and served on the advisory committees for the Overseas Development Council, the Environmental Change and Security Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Grace Church School. Click here for CV.
A partial list of publications includes:
Bruce, Judith. Forthcoming. The next generation in adolescent programming: Meeting the inter-related health, social and economic needs of the most vulnerable, in Adolescentes en Mexico: Estrategias para mejorar su salud sexual y reproductivo Report of a meeting in Mexico City, 22 23 October 2003.
Bruce, Judith, Nicole Haberland, Erica Chong, Monica Grant, and Amy Joyce. 2006. The girls left behind: The failed reach of current schooling, child health, youth-serving, and livelihoods programs for girls living in the path of HIV, policy paper. New York: Population Council.
Bruce, Judith. 2005. “The diverse universe of adolescents, and the girls and boys left behind: A note on research, program and policy priorities,” paper commissioned by UNFPA for the UN Millennium Project.
Bruce, Judith and Shelley Clark. 2004. “The implications of early marriage for HIV/AIDS policy,” brief based on background paper prepared for the WHO/UNFPA/Population Council Technical Consultation on Married Adolescents. New York: Population Council. (PDF) (PDF en français)
Bruce, Judith. 2003. "Married adolescent girls: Human rights, health, and developmental needs of a neglected majority," Economic and Political Weekly
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