John Guillebaud is Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at

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. He was born in

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and brought up in

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, and Britain. He qualified as a medical doctor from

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in 1964. He was medical director of the Margaret Pyke Centre in London from 1998 to 2002. He is a patron of

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(formerly the Optimum Population Trust) and initiated the environment time capsule project.

Selected publications

“Voluntary family planning to minimise and mitigate climate change”

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2016;353:i2102 , * * *

References

External links

Sex - The Most Dangerous Human Activity? Part I

Sex - The Most Dangerous Human Activity? Part II

Sex - The Most Dangerous Human Activity? Part III
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