Belle Taylor-McGhee

Belle Taylor-McGhee is the President and CEO of the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (PIWH).  PIWH works to promote women’s access to safe and effective contraception and other reproductive technologies, including medical abortion.  Additionally, PIWH promotes access to sexuality education that includes contraception information, as well as supports women’s and girls’ leadership in protecting their sexual and reproductive health.

In May 2008, PIWH merged with Pharmacy Access Partnership, an Oakland, California-based center of the independent non-profit Public Health Institute. Prior to the merger, Ms. Taylor-McGhee served as executive director of Pharmacy Access Partnership. Under the newly merged organization, Pharmacy Access Partnership is a center of PIWH.  

Ms. Taylor-McGhee is recognized as a national leader in women’s health and reproductive rights. She has led many state and national initiatives to secure women’s autonomy in private medical decisions and currently serves as the president of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (CCRF).  CCRF is a statewide coalition of more than 60 organizations dedicated to ensuring that every woman has community support and access to make informed personal decisions about her physical and sexual health. Additionally, Ms. Taylor-McGhee serves on the Board of Directors for EngenderHealth, an international NGO that works to improve sexual and reproductive healthcare for women and men worldwide. She is a member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors at the School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco.

Prior to her role at Pharmacy Access Partnership, Ms. Taylor-McGhee served as executive director of the Department on the Status of Women for the City and County of San Francisco – appointed by former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr.  Before this appointment, she served as executive director of CARAL Pro-Choice America; and as director of communications for NARAL Pro-Choice America in Washington, D.C.  Ms. Taylor-McGhee is a former investigative television news reporter with more than a dozen years of broadcast news experience in Seattle, Tampa/St. Petersburg, and Alabama news markets.  

Ms. Taylor-McGhee’s work and insights have been profiled in countless newspapers and national publications throughout the United States.  She has been an invited lecturer on women’s reproductive health issues at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.  Ms. Taylor-McGhee completed the 2004 “Women and Power: Leadership in a New World” executive program at Harvard University at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and broadcasting from the University of Alabama.