Roger Short, AM ScD Camb. FRSEd FAA FRCVS FRCOG FRANZCOG FRCPEd FRS Professorial Fellow

Roger was the Foundation director of the Medical Research Council's Unit of Reproductive Biology in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1972 to 1982, and prior to that, he had been on the scientific staff of the Agricultural Research council's Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry in Cambridge, England from 1956 to 1972.

He was also a Reader in Reproductive Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College.

Roger has published more than 350 scientific papers in a variety of scientific journals. One of his main research interests has been the evolution of human reproduction. He has shed new light on the causes of the human population explosion and been actively involved in contraceptive research and development for two decades. He is currently involved in trialling lemon juice as a contraceptive and anti-HIV microbicide in women.

He was chairman of Family Health International (FHI) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, from 1983 to 1990 and retired from the board in 1997. FHI is one of the world's largest non-government, not-for-profit organisations dedicated to the provision of family planning services for developing countries.

Roger was on the Population Panel of the Wellcome Trust. In 1989 he was a consultant to the Global Program on AIDS of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, where he was involved in designing strategies for the integration of HIV prevention and family planning programs.