Frederick S. Jaffe

Frederick S. Jaffe (1925–1978) was a vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and founder of what is now the Guttmacher Institute. He was an advocate for increasing the availability of family planning services in the United States.[1] Through his publications and consultations Jaffe argued for birth control as a matter of health and human rights. He was instrumental in developing public support for federal financing of family planning programs, among them the landmark Title X of the Public Health Service Act, passed by Congress in 1970.[2] For his contributions to public health Jaffe was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in September 1977.[3]

Life

Jaffe was born in Queens, New York City on November 27, 1925, and died of a heart attack on August 16, 1978 in New York City. After service in the Army Air Force (1944–1946), he completed his bachelor's degree in Economics at Queens College in 1947.[4][5] Subsequently establishing himself as a journalist, he then joined the Planned Parenthood Federation of America as associate director of its Information and Education Department, later becoming Vice President for Program Planning and Development. In 1968 he established the Center for Family Planning Program Development, the research and public policy arm of PPFA, along with Dr. Alan Guttmacher, then president of PPFA.[6] The organization was named after Guttmacher in 1974, with Jaffe as President, and spun off from Planned Parenthood in 1977.

Frederick served as director of the Family Planning Perspectives journal published by the Guttmacher Institute.[7]

Jaffe also consulted with other organizations, among them the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Institutes of Health, the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.[8]He was posthumously awarded both the Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood's highest award, [1] and The Carl S. Shultz Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Public Health Association.[9] Upon the latter presentation, the Population Section of the APHA passed the following resolution:

"The Population Section of the APHA records its deep sorrow over the untimely passing of Frederick S. Jaffe, President of The Alan Guttmacher Institute. Mr. Jaffe, both through his organization and as an individual, was instrumental in the conceptualization of a national family planning program and in its later development and implementation. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, which he founded, reflects Mr. Jaffe's commitment to the production and use of the requisite research and analysis for making informed decisions about fertility-related services and domestic population policies.
"Mr. Jaffe's death is a loss not only to those of us in the population and family planning field but also in the public health arena at large. He worked tirelessly to insure that all people regardless of income, age, race, sex or residence have full access to the reproductive health and social services to which they are entitled."[10]

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References
  1. "PPFA Margaret Sanger Award Winners." plannedparenthood.org. Archived on the original. Accessed August 12, 2013.
    "Our highest honor, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award, is presented annually to recognize leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement."
  2. Title X of the Public Health Service Act (Public Law 91-572 Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs).
  3. Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of (1957). Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences. National Academies. p. 273 – via Internet Archive. frederick s jaffe national academy sciences.
  4. "F.S. Jaffe Dies". Washington Post (18 August 1978). Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  5. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  6. "Guttmacher Institute: History". Guttmacher.org. 2005-08-10. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  7. Masthead (front matter). Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1973, p. 65. JSTOR 2133753.
  8. Planned Parenthood-World Population Washington Memo, 9/1/1978
  9. "The Carl S. Shultz Award for Lifetime Achievement." American Public Health Association. Archived from the original. Accessed June 17, 2019.
    "This award honors individuals who have made an outstanding lifetime contribution to the field of population and reproductive health. It is named for Carl S. Shultz, a pediatrician and public servant who was instrumental in the creation and implementation of the federal family planning program, commonly known as Title X."
  10. "APHA Resolution". apha.org. 1978-10-19. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
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