Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--The director of the National Institutes of Health center that studies reproductive health issues will lead a public program March 29 at Mississippi State.
Dr. Florence P. Haseltine's 7 p.m. presentation in Mitchell Memorial Library auditorium is sponsored by the university's Women's Studies Program as part of the National Women's History Month observance.
Haseltine directs NIH's Center for Population Research, a part of the Bethesda, Md.-based National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist.
As an administrator, she is responsible for research in such areas as the reproductive sciences, contraceptives, and reproductive products and procedures. An expert in reproductive endocrinology, she also has helped develop a program to train obstetrician-gynecologists in basic research.
Additionally, she is the founding editor of the Journal of Women's Health.
Haseltine holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at New York's Yeshiva University.
For more information, contact the MSU Women's Studies Program at (662) 325-1466 or womensstudies@org.msstate.edu.