Malcolm Potts


David Malcolm Potts, FRCOG, FREng is an American human reproductive scientist and Professor of Public Health at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
He was the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby-endowed chair in Population and Family Planning and founding director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability at the School of Public Health.

Biography

Potts completed a medical degree and a PhD in embryology at the University of Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he co-founded the first clinic offering contraception to young people. He advised David Steel on the UK's 1967 Abortion Act. He was the first male doctor at the Marie Stopes Clinic in London.
He became the first Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1968. In 1972, he was the first physician to promote the technique of uterine manual vacuum aspiration. He then moved to the United States and became CEO of Family Health International from 1978 to 1990. During this period, FHI became the largest global AIDS prevention programme outside of the World Health Organization.
He has published ten books and over 350 scientific papers and articles. His books include Abortion, Textbook of Contraceptive Practice, Queen Victoria's Gene, Ever since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality and Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and the British, American, Canadian and Egyptian governments.
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Potts has been married four times, including to Dr. Caroline Deys in 1966, and has three children. He is currently married to Dr. Martha Campbell.