Stan Bernstein

ADVISOR

Stan Bernstein has more than 30 years in a diverse range of capacities in academia and in the United Nations.  He has played many roles: teacher, author, evaluator, advocate and negotiator/listener.  Much of his work has been directly related to the production and advancement of, and awareness raising and resource mobilization for the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, the guiding intergovernmental agreement for the population and reproductive health community.  He has conducted analyses, written articles, synthesized and disseminated the work of others (including 10 years as primary researcher and writer of the State of World Population Report, the UNFPA flagship publication) and stimulated new policy and program syntheses (e.g., as sexual and reproductive health adviser to and author for the UN Millennium Project), and advanced population and reproductive health/family planning issues within intergovernmental and interagency (UN and bilateral) efforts.  He has helped organize teams addressing these various concerns.  Prior to joining the UN he was a researcher and teacher at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and consultant to USAID and UNFPA in various countries in Asia and Africa.

Immediately prior to co-founding Re:Generation Consulting, he contributed to the initial stages of the DFID-funded STEP UP project to develop an evidence base on interventions to prevent unintended pregnancies and provided inputs to the Global Survey of the now-in-process Operational Review of the ICPD Program of Action.  Just prior to leaving UNFPA in 2010 he co-managed the ICPD at 15 Review Process and participated in the drafting of several joint agency publications on progress in development, particularly health, during the 2010 High Level Review of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.  Stan has written most frequently on cost and expenditure issues, program monitoring and evaluation needs and systems, causes and consequences of unmet need for contraceptive services, gender and development issues and health system strengthening.  He early developed and subsequently contributed substantive guidance to the further development of software for forecasting, targeting and priority setting for health system interventions.  His range of experience helps him provide informed and novel perspectives for policy dialog.  His wide network of contacts allows him to provide access to diverse expertise and information and thereby promote productivity.