UCSF Renames Center to Acknowledge Endowment Award

In recognition of a $5 million endowment awarded by the Fred H. Bixby Foundation of Los Angeles, UCSF's Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy has been renamed the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy. Founded in 1999 by Philip Darney and Nancy Padian, the Bixby Center promotes reproductive health through research, training and policy analysis related to contraceptive development, family planning, maternal health, adolescent reproductive health and sexuality, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. Along with professors Darney and Padian, Claire Brindis and J. Joseph Speidel are co-directors of the Bixby Center. Felicia Stewart served as a co-director until her retirement at the end of 2004. The award to the Bixby Center will be paid to UCSF in three installments from 2005 through 2007. Interest from the new endowment will first become available in 2006 and will support the center's core functions, as well as new and existing projects in the center's priority areas. Fred H. Bixby, a rancher in the 1930s and 1940s, established the Bixby Foundation to support work in the areas of population and family planning. For more information about the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy, please visit here.