FEATURED AUTHOR
JOHN GUILLEBAUD
Born in Burundi, still makes support visits for healthcare professions in Africa (Central and South). He lectures and consults nationally and internationally on environmental sustainability, population and contraception; and is author/co-author of over 300 publications on these subjects, including nine books translated into 10 languages. Contraception Today (2016 8e) is his flagship pocketable textbook for doctors and Practice Nurses about all the reversible methods.
Subjects: Healthcare, Medicine
Biography
As well as gynaecological procedures for women he has performed c 5000 vasectomies - latterly by the favoured ‘No-scalpel’ technique - and he is involved in studies of a promising non-hormonal male pill that leads to a semen-free but normal-feeling orgasm, potentially reducing male-to-female HIV transmission.He is author/co-author of over 300 publications on environmental sustainability, reproductive health and population, contraception for women and for men, and of nine books which are available in 10 languages including Bulgarian, Malay and Japanese. He also consults ad hoc, as requested, both internationally (eg WHO and the Department for International Development) and nationally (eg advising on Guidance documents of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health).
His choice of contraception for both genders as his specialty, leading to higher degrees in both surgery and gynaecology, was made while he was still a medical student, prompted by a lecture from the Biologist Dr Colin Bertram. Ever since, his vision has been that humankind’s collective environmental footprint is exacerbated by the number of feet - ie the number of humans doing the consuming and polluting, on our uniquely life-supporting but finite planet. This factor, one of only 3, in humanity’s environmental impact can be addressed, wisely and compassionately, through voluntary rights-based family planning made accessible to all. Along with Sir David Attenborough he is a Patron of and Adviser to www.populationmatters.org; and his TED lecture ‘Sex and the Planet’ and more can be viewed at www.ecotimecapsule.com
Education
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Master of Arts (MA) Cambridge1965
Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) FRCSE 1972
Fellow Royal College Obstetricians & Gynaecologists FRCOG
Fellow Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Health FFSRH 2003
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Male and female contraception
Population and sustainability of the environment
Personal Interests
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Cycling, Cooking, DIY, Environment, Travel
Websites
Environment Time Capsule Project with links to TED lecture, Apology to our grandchildren letters, 'The Promise' booklet and Song, and more
MediConf - promotes his UK-wide Masterclasses in contraception
PopOffsets, website that facilitates purchase of contraceptives to offset one's irreducible carbon emissions
Population Matters - a charity promoting worldwide voluntary family planning, of which John Guillebaud is a Patron
Books
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