Phyllis Tilson Piotrow (born 1933) is an American academic. She is the founder and former first director of the

Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) was founded over 30 years ago by Phyllis Tilson Piotrow as a part the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's department of Health, Behavior, and Society and is located in Baltim ...

Career and education

Phyllis Tilson Piotrow graduated

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from

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in 1954 with honors in history before going on to study at

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as a

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. In 1956, she graduated Bachelor in Modern History with first class honours and Master of Arts in 1959.. From 1960 to 1965 she served as a Legislative Assistant to US Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York. In 1971 she became Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and Population Dynamics from

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

in 1971. Piotrow founded the Center for Communication Programs at the

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at Johns Hopkins University and served as Director until 2001. She retired as a tenured professor. She had served for many years as the founding Executive Director of

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(PAI) as well as chairing the Population and Family Planning section of the

American Public Health Association The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.–based professional membership and advocacy organization for public health professionals in the United States. APHA is the largest professional organization of public health pr ...

. Piotrow has been a consultant to the

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, to the United States Agency for International Development (

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) and to the US Government during the 1974

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Publications

* ''World Population: The Present And Future Crisis'' * ''World Population Crisis: the United States' Response'' * ''Six Billion People: Demographic Dilemmas and World Politics'' (with George P. Tapinos) * ''Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health'' (with

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, Jose G. Rimon) * ''Strategies For Family Planning Promotion'' * ''Family Planning: Improving Opportunities for Women''

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