Kirsten Vogelsong

Dr. Kirsten Vogelsong has been a member of the Family Planning team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since May 2012. She leads the team’s initiative in contraceptive technology research and development and works closely with academic, not-for-profit, government and for-profit partners to promote and ensure the design, development, and introduction of new family planning methods to meet women’s needs in low-resource settings. She works closely with other foundation teams in examining issues of intersection between family planning and HIV and evaluating and addressing technology approaches to enable women to protect themselves from the dual risks of unplanned pregnancy and HIV acquisition.