ISAF Team

Dr. Lippes has made fundamental contributions to the field of obstetrics and gynecology. In 1959, as a private practitioner, he invented the Lippes loop, an intrauterine contraception device.

Lippes taught in the UB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1952 to 1999. He served as medical director of Planned Parenthood of Buffalo from 1962 to 1978, and clinical chief of the obstetrics/gynecology department at Deaconess Hospital of Buffalo from 1975 to 1981. He helped to open and directed the first in vitro fertilization clinic in Buffalo in 1981.

Internationally, Lippes has received numerous awards and has served as a family planning and population consultant to health care organizations, corporations and governments, including South Korea, Taiwan, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, India, Afghanistan and Iran. UB bestowed its Distinguished Alumni Award on Lippes in 1982, followed by its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

In 2010, Lippes became the first American to receive the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health’s annual medal, awarded to him in a ceremony at the Hague, Netherlands.

Sarah G. Epstein’s father Dr. Clarence Gamble founded Pathfinder where she was on the board many years involved in the movement since she was a child. Ms. Epstein is an art lecturer and volunteer. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including Pathfinder International, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, Center for Development and Population Activities, and The Population Institute. She has served as a volunteer for the Urban League and as an organizer for civil rights marches in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Simmons School of Social Work.

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a freelance writer living in Washington, DC., has spent over 40 years working for women’s reproductive health as a founder / board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale undergraduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013.

Dr. Mumford is the founder and President of the Center for Research on Population and Security. He has his doctorate in Public Health. His principal research interest has been the relationship between world population growth and national and global security. He has been called to provide expert testimony before the U.S. Congress on the implications of world population growth.

Dr. Mumford has decades of international experience in fertility research where he is widely published. In 1981, he received the Margaret Mead Leadership Prize in Population and Ecology. He has been recognized for his work in advancing the cause of reproductive rights by the Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association, and has addressed conferences worldwide on new contraceptive technologies and the stresses to the security of families, societies and nations that are created by continued uncontrolled population growth.

Mr. Collins is a senior technical account sales manager today and was a senior level engineering manager in the computer industry and holds 65 patents. His research and development teams designed and supported production of over a million products installed worldwide. He is on the board of several nonprofits, is a graduate of Temple University, and holds his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from National Technological University.