Akinrinola Bankole holds a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Independent Consultant and a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher Institute. He joined the Guttmacher Institute in 1997 and was the Institute’s Director of International Research from 2006 to 2017. His primary areas of research interest and expertise include fertility preferences and behavior, contraception and unmet need, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, unintended pregnancy and abortion, HIV and other STIs, and gender roles and differentials. He has extensive experience in both country-level and comparative cross-country analyses of sexual and reproductive health issues in developing countries. Prior to joining the Guttmacher Institute, he was a member of the research staff at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research. He also served as a Lecturer in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolowo University, and as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He has written and coauthored many journal articles and special reports.
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